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Recent Examples of prong
Noun
And regardless of size, all stones are placed in a four-prong setting to keep them in place.—Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025 To conquer the competition, Flyjets has employed a two-prong strategy encompassing a marketplace and an exchange.—Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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 There’s no definitive diagnostic test for schizophrenia, so doctors will typically take a multi-pronged approach.—Nina Bahadur, SELF, 15 Sep. 2018 See All Example Sentences for prong
Then lift the lid and fluff the pilaf with the tines of a large fork and serve.
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Bill St. John,
Denver Post,
8 Aug. 2025
The tines were unnaturally white and sharp, considering Waters claimed to have taken the buck during the late muzzleloader season, which occurs after the rut in Wisconsin.
Following strict guidelines from its London studio, the physical presence of Phoebe Philo is a sleekly minimal space featuring glass display cases and bespoke furniture such as wooden display shelves and perforated steel chairs reminiscent of Space Age design.
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Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025
For the separator, small PET pieces the size of postage stamps were flattened and perforated with hot needles, optimizing current flow through the liquid electrolyte.
In other words, Newsom, who is entering his final year as governor, has now thrust this issue onto anyone who succeeds him from now on as a permanent part of the state bureaucracy.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
Thomas warns, the square with Pluto is particularly challenging, representing unexpected hurdles, conflicts, and hardship thrust at us from left field.
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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CNN,
CNN,
2 Nov. 2022
Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.
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