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Recent Examples of ping
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
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
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
Imagine a long, muscular capacitor that can ping, probe, and punch.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
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
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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The solemn peal of a temple bell rang out 108 times — an auspicious number — as people flocked to the Baoan Temple in Taipei on Tuesday morning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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This last part seemed to be a joke, eliciting a peal of laughter from his wife.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Senior forward Javan Buchanan had a chance to restore the Broncos’ lead with a corner three with 13 seconds left, but could only clang his shot off the rim, while Gibbs-Lawhorn also missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Feb. 2026
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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
Noun
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Blocks, and a coin emerges with a satisfying chime when Mario’s fist collides with the brick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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May your sounds, your chimes, your silence calm us.—
Paul Jones,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 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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Your Roomba emits a chime and flashes its indicator ring or a Wi-Fi symbol.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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More than 60 high-end homes across the Houston area have been hit in a sweeping burglary spree tied to a South American theft ring using signal jammers and counter-surveillance tactics to evade detection, West University Place Police Chief Gary Ratliff confirmed to Fox News Digital.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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As the night progressed, cocktail glasses continued to clink while a tasty île flottante dessert made its way to each table.—
Avon Dorsey,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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The trek up the swinging staircase, twinkle lights clinking with each step, had my heart pounding for more reason than one.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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