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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
Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
But there is a glaring chink in the armor for the Rebels (6-0, 2-0), and that’s its run defense.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 2025
Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
This new chink in the armor of dark energy resulted from Lee and colleagues from Yonsei University discovering that Type Ia supernova may not be quite so standard after all.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
But there is a glaring chink in the armor for the Rebels (6-0, 2-0), and that’s its run defense.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Oct. 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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Then Evans made another 3, prompting Pitino to turn his back in apparent disbelief.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Way back in 2018, Gaines and Riley were running split-back formations and leaving opposing defenses bamboozled while playing for the 12-and-under Moreno Valley Falcons in the heart of Southern California.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Photos and video show the explorers squeezing through jagged crevices deep inside the karsts, using flashlights to guide them further along an otherwise pitch-black maze of rocky burrows.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Add it to the growing canvases of her daughters playing at the sea, climbing the rocks, placing their tiny hands in the crevices of the walls surrounding the house.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Paveletzke drove straight down the middle of the court for a would-be game-winner … but Suder, who struggled offensively most of the night, met him at the rim and went straight up defensively, forcing Paveletzke’s running layup to clink off the front rim.—
Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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As the night progressed, cocktail glasses continued to clink while a tasty île flottante dessert made its way to each table.—
Avon Dorsey,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Wolf packs on the hunt encircled their prey—typically elk—clamping at the jugular when their target grew weary from the chase.—
Nidhi Sharma,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2026
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The change added a room where prisoners are to be examined and prepped for either a standard peripheral IV, or a central line — a more invasive procedure that inserts into the internal jugular in the neck, a femoral vein in the upper thigh or a subclavian vein in the chest.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But last week, what may have been cracks in the picture-perfect presentation of this demographic of Utah women became a major fissure when a 2023 video of Paul throwing metal barstools at her ex-partner, Dakota Mortenson, while her child is in the room surfaced online.—
Elizabeth Gulino,
Allure,
26 Mar. 2026
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The measurement donnybrook is the latest fissure between Nielsen and its media client base.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The bells that dangled off her red tunic jingled.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2026
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Unpredictable and complex, this film has quite a few tricks stuffed in its stockings that will leave you shocked and your bells fully jingled.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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At its best, reality TV thrives as one of the few television formats that allow genuine insight into the fleshy underbelly of human behavior — albeit edited and manipulated to a producer’s satisfaction.—
Shamira Ibrahim,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Mar. 2026
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This caustic underbelly of the internet has never been closer to the surface.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But Mallach did not disagree that the event had usefully exposed a rift in the community.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The split reflects a broader rift within conservative media.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Chink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chink. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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