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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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as in crevice
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure plugged the chinks in the walls with mortar

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chink

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verb

as in to clink
to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound in the breeze the flag's chain chinked against the flagpole

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Recent Examples of chink
Noun
His perfect armor will begin to exhibit chinks at some time, and his infallibility will become exactly the opposite. Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 Though 2024 didn't deliver a more conclusive answer to this mystery than any of the 25 years before it, a significant chink has appeared in the armor of dark energy, a tantalizing hint that could put scientists on the right path to solving this pressing cosmological puzzle. Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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 See all Example Sentences for chink 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chink
Noun
  • Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce made out with a couple of soccer jerseys emblazoned with his name on the back.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Amid the stress of releasing new music and back to back tours, McRae is also focused on her beauty routine.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • How to Clean a Leather Sofa in 5 Steps Step One Remove pet hair, loose soil, and dust with a vacuum's upholstery brush and crevice tool or a microfiber cloth.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Sit back, look up, and let the ceiling’s complex crevices distract you from the anxious little screen in your hand.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In the final moments of the broadcast she was shown clinking glasses with Jay-Z as his wife, Beyoncé, accepted the night's top honor, album of the year, for the first time.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Swift was seen on camera clinking champagne glasses with Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z, after the Cowboy Carter artist accepted her Grammy onstage on Feb. 2.
    Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Almost straight from the restart, France pressured Argentina into a hurried clearance, and from there France went straight for the jugular.
    Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Monica goes for the jugular, among other vulnerable body parts.
    Charles McNultyTheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
Noun
  • There are deep fissures in Trump’s coalition between men like Steve Bannon, who favor increased economic support for the working class, and those like Musk, who want corporations and capital to be unfettered.
    Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The whole issue of health care, and the profits that come with it, continues to be an angry fissure in public debate.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus-year span of appearing on the chart.
    Jim Asker, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Shoppers find last-minute Christmas gifts at area businesses Bells jingled on shop doors as people wandered in and out of stores searching for last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve in Northwest Arkansas.
    Gael Langdon, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Roger Ebert famously panned it, though other critics hailed it as a brave and unsparing look at the underbelly of small-town ordinariness.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • It’s been restored from the original camera negative, making the story of Travis Bickle’s journey through the underbelly of New York City grittier and more tactile than ever before.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Political rifts Political divisions within the Latino community have also spurred turbulence and anxiety.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Later in the episode, this rift leads to further problems for Deb when Sofia tells Tiffany that Deb was the one who stole her car and left it on the beach.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Chink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chink. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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