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Recent Examples of ringer Brie and Franco shine as physical actors who are willing to put themselves through the ringer to express anguish. Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 31 July 2025 Edmonton Oilers stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl were quite the ringers at the Magna Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, last Wednesday for the beer league game, but they were actually outscored by their opponents, who have quite the hockey story for the rest of their lives. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2025 The organization sought and gained permission from Kroger's Pick 'n Save and Metro Market stores for bell ringers to set up outside the stores. Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025 Rocking jeans, a pink crop top, a couple of water bottles and a smile that’s a dead-ringer for her mom’s, Willow looks ready to take on the world. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for ringer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ringer
Noun
  • Pottery Barn offers matching shams with zipper closures, and both the quilt and shams are available on sale.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In terms of your pillowcases, skip the decorative shams and opt for a set that matches your sheets.
    Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The twins have increasingly relied on silhouettes that consist of a strip tube top or bandeau top, a tiny miniskirt, and a long, layered jacket, and once again, both brothers are doing the same thing.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Though Twinless is a movie all about twins, writer-director and star James Sweeney is not a twin himself.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Buffs bit on a zone-read fake on Delaware’s first drive as tailback Jo Silver opened the game by gashing CU for a 10-yard gain.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • True stories are one way to differentiate the authentic from the fake.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the event Nvidia speakers particularly focused on enterprise inference applications, where AI hopes to achieve its return on investment as pointed out in the slide image below.
    Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The comments came as New Zealand Police released images on Tuesday showing a campsite set up in Waitomo, which is believed to be where Phillips and his children had been staying before he was fatally shot.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Julie and Todd were found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax fraud in June 2022, while Julie was also found guilty of wire fraud.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The election is complicated by the fact that Brown faces felony fraud charges.
    Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Creator @tinalemac shared her step-by-step process for transforming a plain IKEA mirror into a high-end replica using nothing more than tin foil and air-dry clay.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Acutis' tomb in Assisi—his body displayed in a wax replica and dressed in casual clothes and sneakers—has become a major pilgrimage site, and relics associated with him have toured internationally.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the clues as to what was happening were written on the images, allowing mission personnel to experiment on a clone of the camera, in a laboratory setting.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025
  • By offering personalized engagement, clones build audiences, generate mailing lists, and drive product sales in a way traditional media cannot.
    Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, what’s wrong with that picture?
    Jamie McIntyre, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There was a sharp spike in job cuts during August, new data shows, as employers shed staff due to a worsening economic picture.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Ringer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ringer. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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