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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
Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Crystalline water ice, Xie explained, is known to be found in various places within our solar systems—from some of the moons of the outer planets to Saturn's rings, comets and other rocks that make up the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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
Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
The company rang up $6.67 billion in sales versus the $6.81 billion that analysts had penciled in, according to LSEG.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Davidson took officers to the ring, then to the grave, which had fresh dirt indicating it had recently been disturbed, police said.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
Crystalline water ice, Xie explained, is known to be found in various places within our solar systems—from some of the moons of the outer planets to Saturn's rings, comets and other rocks that make up the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the solar system.
—Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Verb
The very idea of letting machines read our minds by understanding our emotional responses will rightly set alarm bells ringing for many.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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
Verb
The scheme works like this: Scammers ring up unsuspecting homeowners, posing as representatives from their mortgage company or loan servicer (the company that collects monthly payments and pays the relevant taxes and insurance).
—Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
The company rang up $6.67 billion in sales versus the $6.81 billion that analysts had penciled in, according to LSEG.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Ring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ring. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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