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as in crowd
a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
a gaming ring that meets once a week to play
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as in call
a communication by telephone
give me a ring when you're ready to go
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as in to surround
to form a circle around
tall cypress trees ringing the park
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as in to circle
to travel completely around
the line of season ticket buyers ringed the block
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as in to achieve
to obtain (as a goal) through effort
touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term
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Recent Examples of ring
Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Vintage Adidas Originals T-shirt; vintage Ray-Ban glasses; Anita Ko ring.
—Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 1 May 2025
Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
The venue was ringed by ample restaurants, but when Warrier finished, around 11 p.m., they were all closed.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
Becoming Led Zeppelin, the hybrid documentary-concert film from Sony Pictures Classics, rings up $993k on 940 screens in week 3 for a cume of $7.4 million.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Police said that last Thursday morning the two of them argued with Diaz’s fiancée in the couple’s Jackson Heights apartment near 32nd Ave. and 90th St.
The couple appears to have recently broken up, prompting a dispute about getting back the 34-year-old victim’s ring.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Vintage Adidas Originals T-shirt; vintage Ray-Ban glasses; Anita Ko ring.
—Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 1 May 2025
Verb
Samara Cohen, Chief Investment Officer of ETF and Index Investments at Blackrock, (C) rings the opening bell as Bitcoin Spot ETF’s are launched on the Nasdaq Exchange on January 11, 2024 in New York City.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
The venue was ringed by ample restaurants, but when Warrier finished, around 11 p.m., they were all closed.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
Our test unit rang up at $2,679.27—though IT buyers will likely pay less per unit—with an eight-core, vPro manageability-enabled Core Ultra 7 268V chip, the max 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 1,920-by-1,200-pixel IPS non-touch display.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
Becoming Led Zeppelin, the hybrid documentary-concert film from Sony Pictures Classics, rings up $993k on 940 screens in week 3 for a cume of $7.4 million.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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“Ring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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