Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conking
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Jones, of Joliet, said his testimony helped convict Joseph Czuba, a Plainfield landlord who was found guilty last year in the stabbing death of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, a Palestinian American boy who was targeted because of his race and religion.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026 -
Three of the stabbing victims were dead at the scene and another died while being taken to a hospital.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Feb. 2026
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Only Byrne’s flashes of humor and desperately flailing humanity keep her on this side of monstrous.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Dropping off signatures is a way to highlight a candidate's support and can weed out flailing campaigns from serious ones.—
Stacey Barchenger,
AZCentral.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Taylor also weighed in on keeping her cool on stage when things go wrong, such as embracing her wig flying off and whipping it around her head, the proper form for double-dutching and having patience in Hollywood.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
26 Feb. 2026
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Though both storms are similar — with a major storm system lingering over the region for over a day and whipping the region with merciless hurricane-level winds, driving inch after inch of wet snow — what made the 1978 storm so devastating was the apparent suddenness of its arrival.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 Feb. 2026
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Crockett seemed to see enemies everywhere, and closed her campaign lashing out at certain political consultants and reporters.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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In recent days, the president has remained defiant on the issue, lashing out at the justices for delivering a legal setback on his tariffs, and looking to impose new global tariffs in a different way.—
Ana Ceballos
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Makar went to the penalty box for slashing, and the Wild capitalized on the man-advantage when Eriksson Ek popped in the rebound of a Boldy shot.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Council was able to avoid layoffs, balancing its billion dollar budgets by slashing vacant positions and hiking fees for parking and other programs, in those years.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
26 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Jefferies analysts, led by Peramunetilleke, found that MongoDB’s moat could get disrupted if AI coding tools weaken database selection, leaving developers less tied to a single database architecture as switching costs decline.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
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But without the push-pull of switching between Grace and Leon, the game starts to drag like an overly long action movie.—
Jay Peters,
The Verge,
1 Mar. 2026
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The losses were sapping their strength and stamina.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2026
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But the theories stemming from the intense public interest can create serious problems for investigators — sapping time and resources that should be dedicated to solving the case and finding Guthrie, experts say.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Mikel Arteta reflected on how his group lived the period between points inexplicably frittered away at Wolves and confidently spearing the heart of their rivals four days later.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Traditional Japanese yakitori calls for spearing chicken seasoned with salt or a soy basting sauce onto bamboo skewers and grilling them over charcoal.—
SAVEUR Editors,
Saveur,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Conking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conking. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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