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as in tine

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Noun

Leading one prong of this movement was Georgeanne Brennan (who is also a longtime Bay Area News Group correspondent). — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 The ring has a classic four-prong platinum mounting and is worth between $3-5 million. — Freya Drohan, InStyle, 30 June 2026

Verb

The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal. — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019 Few hardware manufacturers have convinced other game makers that their strange, proprietary chips—full of multi-pronged, work-in-tandem processors or cores—are worth those system-specific headaches. — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2018 See All Example Sentences for prong

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prong

Noun

Use a rake with short straight tines to pull up thatch from small areas.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
It is also used like a rake, except that the goal is to dig down with the tines to pull up thatch and remove it.

— David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 21 May 2026

Definition of tine

Verb

While the gold seemed all-but hers, Andrade came up short on her second vault, a comparatively simple Lopez vault, piking down and stepping over the line to incur a neutral deduction.

— Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023

Definition of pike

Verb

Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.

— Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020

Definition of bayonet

Verb

Eschewing the classic perforated upper, the styles modeled by Grace include the Unfurgettable Vegan Suede and Vegan Suede Quilted clogs, which are lined with faux fur but can still be decorated with Jibbitz along the backstrap.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Even now, it is seen as that, rather than the partnership that is key to the success of one of the biggest flower families, and an example of a process that drives and perforates all of life.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of perforate

Verb

Director James Marcus Haney crafts a propulsive portrait of Ukrainian youth living on a knife’s edge, denied the certainty of a future in a brutal war of aggression thrust upon them by Russia.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
Born in Kansas City on March 30 at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Drajten, at 8 pounds, entered the world with a hole in his diaphragm, one that caused his stomach to be thrust up near his lungs, pushing his tiny heart to one side.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of thrust

Verb

Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.

— CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.

— Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020

Definition of quill

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