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Recent Examples of prong
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The book satisfied the second prong.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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.
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Sam MacHkovech,
Ars Technica,
19 Sep. 2018
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Noun
The lower prong holds the knot.
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Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The book satisfied the second prong.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 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.
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prong
Noun
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Instead, prosecutors said, a shootout between longtime gang rivals left six dead including three bystanders in the chaotic minutes after closing tine, April 3, 2022.
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Each set comes with three tools—a trowel, a tine fork, and a weeder.
Verb
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This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).
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Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
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The Test Kitchen prefers perforated grill baskets ($30, Amazon).
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This fat line fed a series of narrower pipes in the tower, which ran along the corners of every floor, wall, and ceiling, and were perforated to spray gas into the rooms.
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Now another boom, AI, has thrust him back into the three-comma club.
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On board, the crew prepared to thrust heaving lines over the white hull of this historic 295-foot behemoth.
Verb
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Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
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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.
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“Prong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prong. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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