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clanked

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past tense of clank

as in clinked

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Twelve of the most powerful football owners, chairmen and CEOs clinked glasses and talked shop.

— James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Miriam pulled one tooth, then another from her mouth, and clinked them into a porcelain dish on her nightstand.

— Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026

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Those tempers were not helped by the nasty collision between Guehi and Veiga just before the break, as the Englishman clattered into the midfielder in attempt to head the ball away.

— Thom Harris, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
But the moment that may have sealed Argentina’s fate came in the final minutes of second-half stoppage time when Enzo Fernández clattered into Spanish center back Pau Cubarsí at midfield, flipping him head over heels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

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Sticks clacked in quick succession as passes moved up the ice.

— Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
On the other side of a chain link fence, a women’s pickleball foursome click-clacked through a couple of sets, seemingly clueless about the identity of the two young men readying themselves for the start of the 2026 season.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026

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On October 4, 2016, the famously quiet, reserved fighter picked up her phone, opened her Twitter (now ‘X’ ) app and clicked on the ‘search’ function.

— Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
At that point in time, our investment percentage had clicked over the 7 percent.

— Alex Crippen, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026

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Rutschman said some of his former Orioles teammates chirped at him throughout the game and gave him a hard time about getting around the ballpark as a visiting player.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Social media has chirped with photos and comments from birders, some of whom see this as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

— Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2026

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