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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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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.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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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
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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Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
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There was an almost slapstick quality to ball after ball being heaved up, over and over, clanging against the rim or missing it altogether.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Accessibility and Sustainability Guest rooms are all in compliance with ADA, with many offering accessible clearance for wheelchairs and audible chimes for the hearing impaired.—
Carole Dixon,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Jan. 2026
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The louder speaker pairs with a new chime sound.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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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Known as the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian crime ring, defendants received one- to three-year sentences for racketeering, health care fraud and money laundering.—
William La Jeunesse,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Meantime, a controversy arose last week surrounding the mysterious capture in Mexico of Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who faces federal charges in California of running a billion-dollar drug-trafficking ring.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Picture a bunch of people descending in private jets to eat steak and appear on panels about alleviating poverty and fighting climate change (among other noble goals), while clinking cocktail glasses with other fellow rich people in an effort to make one another even richer.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Servers were trading off shifts and the bar was clinking away.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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