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Recent Examples of ping
Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Authorities attempted to ping the hunter’s phone, but his location could not be determined.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The game didn’t ping me with notifications every few minutes.
—Jessica Ewing
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
InReach is used to send messages to other people using the Garmin Messenger app, to ping your location to them and for SOS alerts.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The sheriff’s office attempted to ping the man’s phone but was unable to determine a location.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Authorities attempted to ping the hunter’s phone, but his location could not be determined.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
The game didn’t ping me with notifications every few minutes.
—Jessica Ewing
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
InReach is used to send messages to other people using the Garmin Messenger app, to ping your location to them and for SOS alerts.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
Noun
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The orchestration — rich, fluid, and glistening with the vaguely exotic plinks of the cimbalom — has the plushness of an antique carpet.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
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There’s also an experimental score by Daniel Blumberg made of bangs and piano plinks and noises that sound like a dozen balloons screaming.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Future transshipment rules, for instance, could ding individual components that are made in one country—China, again, is a good bet—and then integrated into a product without enough of a transformation in another before winding up in the United States.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
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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
Noun
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Amid grills cooking savory barbecue, bubbles blowing from an ice cream truck, face painting and peals of laughter from kids in a nearby bouncy house, Justine Mosely Stephens was struggling not to tear up.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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As two peals of thunder cracked overhead, all live television feeds from the site went dead.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
Verb
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In one lavish dinner scene, revelers carry on their conversations amid a cacophony of clanging silverware.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Dec. 2025
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Purdy helped provide a big momentum boost with a 33-yard strike to Kittle directly into the wind with 15 seconds to play that set up a 25-yard field goal by Matt Gay, with the ball hitting the upright and clanging through for three points and a 10-8 halftime lead.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The chime is spectacular, so crisp and clear.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
15 Dec. 2025
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And again, as if some biological clock were repeating its cloying chime, leading us brightly down the road to our collective intellectual doom.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Prices at the auction were gong up and up.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Salt dries into white rings, while melting snow can cause uneven water stains that stiffen leather, dull suede, and discolor fabric.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
6 Jan. 2026
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The resort's Instagram post features a clip of the moment, capturing Van Camp's shocked reaction to dropping the ring.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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So the pair took a romp through wine country for Christina’s birthday, clinking glasses at Progeny Winery in Napa Valley and Restoration Hardware in Yountville.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Jan. 2026
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Later on, the younger kids in bed, a gathering of lawn chairs, clinking ice, and summer crickets or cicadas, frogs, whatever, Ray, what is that?—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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