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Noun
The plink of a piano wafted in from the Music Hall by the water’s edge, and on a nearby point, the American flag billowed in the breeze.—Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2023 Over slight variations of the same round-and-round keyboard plink, Boo becomes a sassy stripper confronting cheap patrons on ‘Can I Get Paid?’.—Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
Verb
High capacity allows target shooters to plink away for longer periods without having to stop and laboriously handload.—Aaron Smith, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021 The seven-time Grammy-winning Newman, sheltering in place with his dog whining in the background, sat down at his piano and casually plinked out an offering as comfortable as macaroni and cheese.—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for plink
Not only does Google enable 2G connections to be disabled where iPhone does not, but the Android-maker is now also launching a defense against these rogue cellular connections, warning when there’s any unencrypted connection or when a network is repeatedly pinging a phone for its identifiers.
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Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
Season 7, which wrapped this month, pinged between a number of different stories.
With 9:24 to play, Lee fired a shot over his back shoulder, sniping twine for his third goal as the Eagles pulled further away with an 11-3 advantage.
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Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
12 June 2025
Willy Robinson sniped six goals, shattering a program record for career tallies (284 overall) as No. 5 Scituate (15-5) punched its ticket to the next round with a 17-8 win over No. 12 Dover-Sherborn.
Amal wore a strapless white Tamara Ralph Haute Couture gown which was draped in peals from top to bottom, with some wrapped around her arms below the shoulder.
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Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2025
As two peals of thunder cracked overhead, all live television feeds from the site went dead.
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.
There are pics of the pair kissing, clinking Champagne glasses, and taking a selfie with a digital camera.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
9 June 2025
As unveiled on the band’s Instagram Thursday (May 29), the LP’s front features a cozy photo of Kevin, Nick and Joe clinking wine glasses while dining at a restaurant.
The rest of the cast creates a convincing family, given and found, around our hero, and there are details aplenty that help the show stick: Jokes are peppered in consistently enough to recognize each character as much more than a vehicle for exposition.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 June 2025
The judge peppered Reuveni with questions: How was Abrego Garcia seized?
The constant clang of metal and the screech of drills suggest the sort of work underway at a warehouse-turned-workshop in this Ukrainian city about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of Kyiv.
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Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 2025
As church bells clang, worshippers fill the sanctuary of San Lorenzo.
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Erika Page,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 Apr. 2025
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