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Recent Examples of ping
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.
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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.
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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.
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Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
8 May 2026
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Verb
Noah's phone last pinged somewhere in Detroit, authorities say.
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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
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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.
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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.
Verb
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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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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.
Noun
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Assuming the role of a human clapper, Holzinger struck its lip again and again, sending a sonorous peal across the Biennale grounds.
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Magaletti ventures a tentative introduction of brushes on snares; following the muted peal of distant thunder, upsammy chimes in with a plangent synthesizer sequence reminiscent of Arovane and other IDM producers from around the turn of the millennium.
Verb
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Hathaway’s Catwoman is one of her best takes on feminine rage, juggling a sense of righteousness and nihilism that might clang unconvincingly in the hands of a different performer.
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Don’t let your knives clang around in storage.
Noun
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Skip fake florals, door bows, and chimes, which can look cheap or annoy neighbors.
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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.
Verb
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Prices at the auction were gong up and up.
Noun
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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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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.
Verb
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There is the sound of laughter, clinking wine glasses, and lively conversations as everyone waits for the mystery wine tasting of the evening.
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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.
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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