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
  • His 25-foot, step-back clanged out with 9.1 seconds to play.
    Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • When his soaring fly ball clanged off the right-field wall at Truist Park, the Atlanta Braves outfielder was caught flat-footed.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The ball whipped around the floor, pinging from the ball handler to the roller to the corners.
    Jovan Buha, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Authorities previously pinged a missing phone to the area, located near the Firestone Library, where he was last seen on Saturday, April 19, at approximately 6 p.m. local time, according to a Tiger Alert emailed to students on Tuesday, April 22.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And that repeating first couplet — which comprises six of the poem’s 18 lines and occupied the first day of this challenge — will surely jingle in your pocket for a long time to come.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • 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
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
  • In season 9, Singer clashed with her costar Carole Radziwill over politics.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • The countries have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir, and clashed many times.
    USA Today, USA Today, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • To show that behind the wine glasses clinking in celebration, there are also tears, fears and moments of reckoning.
    Jessica Guerrieri, People.com, 9 May 2025
  • Applause and clinking glasses greeted each celebrity ascent up the Met’s iconic steps.
    Vogue, Vogue, 7 May 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 18 May. 2025.

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