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as in back
a vulnerable point
before the tournament she studied tapes of her chief rival, looking for the chink in her game
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Recent Examples of chink
Beren Cross, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
The veteran torched them for 32 a month prior and sensed the chinks in their armor.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Confidence drained as the hosts’ goals went in, before a chink of light in the closing stages of the first period.
—Beren Cross, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
The veteran torched them for 32 a month prior and sensed the chinks in their armor.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chink
Noun
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In addition, some vehicles only have to display a back plate, like historic vehicles and motorcycles.—
Eleanor Nash
July 10,
Kansas City Star,
10 July 2025
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For a sheriff who frequently talks about demanding accountability, Tony’s threat to turn his back on a city of 87,000 residents is exactly the kind of talk lawbreakers want to hear.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Use the crevice tool to get in the nooks and corners of your outdoor spaces where cobwebs, dirt, small twigs, and other messes might be lurking.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
17 July 2025
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With four different brush heads this tool can tackle grout, tile and all of the dirty crevices in your bathroom.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
10 July 2025
Verb
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In the crowd, her husband, Jay-Z, clinked glasses with fellow nominee Taylor Swift.—
Melonee Hurt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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In the crowd, her husband, Jay-Z, clinked glasses with fellow nominee Taylor Swift. Ye, Bianca Censori turn heads on Grammys red carpet Ye and his wife made an unforgettable appearance at Sunday's 2025 Grammy Awards.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Zachary Naegele, 24, was competing at the Conley Invitational in Palmetto, Florida, last week when the bull’s horn punctured his jugular, causing blood to stream out in a heart-pounding, caught-on-camera moment.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025
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Gone are the days of Ami Cusack cutting down men without hesitation or Natalie Bolton flossing her teeth with Jason Siska’s jugular.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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And Japan’s invocation of World War II is controversial in a region where fissures over Tokyo’s devastating militarism during the period sour relations with many of its neighbors to this day.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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Race created the conditions for one of the greatest original fissures within the feminist movement, which makes Kendall’s exploration of the ways in which mainstream feminism has continued to fail women of color feel particularly timely, even five years after its publication.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
Verb
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They’re woven into the tapestry of our front-yard memories—sticky fingers, crooked signs, and mason jars jingling with coins and all, but somewhere along the way, the simple tradition has faded.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Their soft underbellies are sliced open, where roe can then be cut out by the handful.—
Kylie Williams,
Miami Herald,
29 June 2025
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Last fall, Boom applied patches of the material during testing of its experimental XB-1 to its underbelly.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
3 May 2025
Noun
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This rift has become especially pronounced on social media, with hordes of conservative influencers dividing between those behind the banner of Trump and those of the Epstein narrative skeptics.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
18 July 2025
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The year-long FOI battle is connected to a convoluted and bitter political rift that has dogged Bloomfield for the past two years under Mayor Danielle Wong’s administration.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
16 July 2025
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“Chink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chink. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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