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Recent Examples of ping
Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Late in his career, he was reinvented as a ‘quarterback’, pinging diagonals from deep with machine-like precision.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
On June 14, 2024, authorities pinged Martinez-Hernandez's cellphone and responded to a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
But Mexico was still able to ping passes around a Canada side that tried to play narrow.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
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Verb
The Cassville Fire Protection District was able to locate Walker and the other individual when their cellphones pinged near a town, according to a Facebook post by the fire department.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
Late in his career, he was reinvented as a ‘quarterback’, pinging diagonals from deep with machine-like precision.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
On June 14, 2024, authorities pinged Martinez-Hernandez's cellphone and responded to a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2025
But Mexico was still able to ping passes around a Canada side that tried to play narrow.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
Noun
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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
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Plink, plink, plink go the rivets, with MGM's No Time to Die, rescheduled from Nov. 20 to April 2021 on Friday, being the latest to plummet earthward.—
Jeva Lange,
TheWeek,
5 Oct. 2020
Verb
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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Instead, fans turned the nasty weather into a party, cheering louder at every peal of thunder.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
Verb
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His 25-foot, step-back clanged out with 9.1 seconds to play.—
Bill Speros,
Boston Herald,
7 May 2025
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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
Noun
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Offerings include yoga for kids and a sound bath workshop, where participants can explore the use of gongs, chimes, and singing bowls.—
John Wogan,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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Using those suggestions, the city incorporated enhanced accessibility for all children and expanded sensory play options with bongos and chimes.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During the final episodes, her past comes back to haunt her when her twin brother, Leon (Nick Creegan), gets mixed up in a violent carjacking ring wreaking havoc on the city.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
17 May 2025
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Tucker, who won a championship with the Bucks in 2021, is one of two players with championship rings on the Knicks roster, with OG Anunoby (Raptors, 2019) the other. NUMBER 6.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2025
Verb
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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
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Applause and clinking glasses greeted each celebrity ascent up the Met’s iconic steps.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.—
Kim Hyatt,
Star Tribune,
23 July 2021
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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