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Noah's phone last pinged somewhere in Detroit, authorities say.—
Terell Bailey,
CBS News,
23 May 2026 The call location was pinging at a residence on Edmere Road, according to the East Haven Police Department.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
19 May 2026 By photographing a patch of sky for which previous surveys had already built up a sufficient template, Rubin was able to ping 800,000 alerts in a single night.—Quanta Magazine,
15 May 2026 Every now and then, the hunter’s headphones would ping, registering a metallic hit below ground; though the vast majority of those signals were inconsequential, identifying only bits of scrap iron or old lead bullets.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ping
Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.
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H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
The orchestration — rich, fluid, and glistening with the vaguely exotic plinks of the cimbalom — has the plushness of an antique carpet.
The report also dings the Harris campaign for failing to distance the candidate from Biden, in light of his unpopularity at the time.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
21 May 2026
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.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
After his third 3 clanged off the back of the rim midway through the first quarter, Hart pulled his shirt over his mouth.
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Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
The sequence started with Devin Vassell's mid-range jumper clanging off the back of the rim while three Timberwolves, including 7-foot-1 Rudy Gobert waited in the paint for the rebound.
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Tom Orsborn,
San Antonio Express-News,
10 May 2026
Skip fake florals, door bows, and chimes, which can look cheap or annoy neighbors.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
23 June 2026
Compared with today’s start-stop systems, seatbelt alarms and constant sensor beeping, perhaps a musical door chime, an adventurous grille and a few outrageous fins were not the worst ideas after all.
Included in the five photos was a close-up shot of the singer's engagement ring created by Kindred Lubeck with Artifex Fine Jewelry.
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Bryan West,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
The slideshow on social media showed Kelce’s backyard transformed into a lush, floral garden as the pair embraced and showed off Swift’s new ring — a large diamond set in yellow gold.
The central lobby space is a social scene abuzz with people enjoying formal afternoon tea, clinking glasses at the Champagne bar (rotating themes and partnerships add variety for locals) or tucking into meals at the dining room.
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Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Avtan often won’t tell Paz anything about the source or meaning of her many samples, which can take the form of fragmented dialogue and what sounds like clinking kitchenware.