as in jingling
to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound
awoke to the steady pitter-patter of raindrops tingling on the rooftop
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Recent Examples of tingling
Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Some people have no symptoms, but others may feel pain, tingling, numbness or muscle weakness.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
For some people, this arousal feels like a tingling sensation.
—Erika W. Smith, Refinery29, 7 Aug. 2025
Consumers with food allergies should stop eating the product and should seek medical attention or use emergency medication such as epinephrine for any reactions or symptoms, including hives, skin rash, itching or tingling mouth, coughing, trouble breathing, nausea, facial swelling, or anaphylaxis.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
On both of us, the product lathered up wonderfully and had an invigorating tingling sensation, likely thanks to the line's new PhytoFerment innovation.
—Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Some people have no symptoms, but others may feel pain, tingling, numbness or muscle weakness.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
For some people, this arousal feels like a tingling sensation.
—Erika W. Smith, Refinery29, 7 Aug. 2025
Consumers with food allergies should stop eating the product and should seek medical attention or use emergency medication such as epinephrine for any reactions or symptoms, including hives, skin rash, itching or tingling mouth, coughing, trouble breathing, nausea, facial swelling, or anaphylaxis.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tingling
Verb
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Of course, this stat includes the myriad styles of chardonnay, even if our collective imagination pictures throngs of stereotypical oaky chard drinkers clinking glasses while snacking on sticks of butter.—
Devin Parr,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Before anyone knew it, the house would be as fragrant of cocoa and sugar and butter as it was filled with conversation and laughter and clinking silverware.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Fifteen years of separation led them to grow even further apart, though, and a once-symbiotic relationship has evolved into something considerably more prickly.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
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Noah Baumbach’s painfully incisive portrait of a family divorce among a remarkably prickly family of Brooklyn intellectuals finds so many ways to showcase its characters’ most brittle sides.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Jeanne Tripplehorn is having a blast as Dale’s caustic widow Betty Jo.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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Ross gets away with such a surfeit of sentiment precisely because of his naturally caustic inclinations; the jokes are sharp enough and the laughs are hard and plentiful enough that all of the schmaltz feels not just charming but well-earned.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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After ringing the bell, the young boys took off, making it at least 20 feet away before the suspect walked to the edge of his property and two shots rang out — one finding its mark in Julián’s back, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told CNN.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Payam Zamani’s story reads like the American dream—one that begins with his escape from religious persecution in Iran as a teenager and culminates, years later, with ringing the bell at NASDAQ.—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That said, there are far less invigorating ways to watch a good movie go off the rails than to put yourself in the hand of Schnabel.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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Draining the swamp never sounded so invigorating.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The wind howled, rattling metal signs and tugging at our clothes as the dust swallowed everything in sight.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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As in his previous films, a clanking, rattling soundscape constructed entirely in post is an artisanal marvel, immersing viewers both in the perilous metallic din of a maybe-sinking ship, and the comforting artifice of analog movie-making.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Redness, stinging, swelling13 7.—
Megan Nunn,
Verywell Health,
27 Aug. 2025
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They are known to be foraging predators with tentacles that hold highly poisonous stinging cells, used for both hunting and self-defense, explains the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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International sales have already been unsurprisingly brisk.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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All forms of exercise are helpful, and a great choice is simply taking a brisk walk every day.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Tingling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tingling. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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