gong

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Verb
  • La Cañada resident Trent Sanders, who frequently dings California’s liberal politicos in emails to me and my colleagues, thinks Trump is generally on the right track three months into his term, but with a few caveats.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Each application requires the card issuer or lender to pull your credit report, which results in a hard inquiry on your report and dings your credit score a few points.
    Dan Avery, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But DeMar DeRozan’s contested 3-point try at the buzzer clanged off the backboard.
    Staff and news service reports, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2025
  • First, David Pastrnak set up Geekie for a one-timer but, with much of the net at which to shoot, Geekie clanged the near post.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Cassville Fire Protection District was able to locate Walker and the other individual when their cellphones pinged near a town, according to a Facebook post by the fire department.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Late in his career, he was reinvented as a ‘quarterback’, pinging diagonals from deep with machine-like precision.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.
    Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • There is no other objective left for the Kings than to bring the series back to Los Angeles and play in their first Game 7 since the first time these teams clashed in this four-year run that has wound up one-sided.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Earlier this month, the administration began targeting the nonprofit status of Harvard University, which could be a prelude to a broader effort to eliminate the tax-exempt status for other nonprofit organizations that the administration has clashed with.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Verb
  • Sure, Italians look darn elegant and effortless sipping a spritz, but that cigar ring clinking the glass is purposefully chosen and those sunglasses (likely bought at the local ottica) weren’t just a quick find at a gas station.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Lindor and Soto drew back-to-back walks, and Arizona turned to side-winding right-hander Ryan Thompson, who plunked Alonso to load the bases with no outs.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
  • The meltdown began when lefty reliever Luis Peralta plunked Jonathan Aranda, and Taylor Walls laced a single to left.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2025
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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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