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Recent Examples of ping
Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
And yet her mind is elsewhere, conversations fading out, her thoughts consumed with the orders that keep pinging on her screen.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
Just leave your inability to suspend biblical amounts of disbelief at the door, and prepare to experience the absolute bone-chilling horror that is a constantly pinging smartphone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
For a fee, the travel lounge offers customers respite from the rolling suitcases, travelers sprinting to gates and pinging devices often found inside the airport.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Location information also showed Robinson’s phone pinged from near the scene where the Nissan was found on fire, according to the complaint.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
And yet her mind is elsewhere, conversations fading out, her thoughts consumed with the orders that keep pinging on her screen.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
Just leave your inability to suspend biblical amounts of disbelief at the door, and prepare to experience the absolute bone-chilling horror that is a constantly pinging smartphone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
For a fee, the travel lounge offers customers respite from the rolling suitcases, travelers sprinting to gates and pinging devices often found inside the airport.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
Noun
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There’s also an experimental score by Daniel Blumberg made of bangs and piano plinks and noises that sound like a dozen balloons screaming.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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Plink, plink, plink go the rivets, with MGM's No Time to Die, rescheduled from Nov. 20 to April 2021 on Friday, being the latest to plummet earthward.—
Jeva Lange,
TheWeek,
5 Oct. 2020
Verb
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La Cañada resident Trent Sanders, who frequently dings California’s liberal politicos in emails to me and my colleagues, thinks Trump is generally on the right track three months into his term, but with a few caveats.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Each application requires the card issuer or lender to pull your credit report, which results in a hard inquiry on your report and dings your credit score a few points.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Instead, fans turned the nasty weather into a party, cheering louder at every peal of thunder.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Within hours of arriving, what sounded like a distant peal of thunder rolled in—in this case, the rumble of a harmless, but still awe-inspiring, small-scale avalanche.—
Samantha Falewée,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Oct. 2024
Verb
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But DeMar DeRozan’s contested 3-point try at the buzzer clanged off the backboard.—
Staff and news service reports,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2025
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First, David Pastrnak set up Geekie for a one-timer but, with much of the net at which to shoot, Geekie clanged the near post.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Offerings include yoga for kids and a sound bath workshop, where participants can explore the use of gongs, chimes, and singing bowls.—
John Wogan,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Apr. 2025
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Using those suggestions, the city incorporated enhanced accessibility for all children and expanded sensory play options with bongos and chimes.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There’s a kickstand at the bottom of the case, along with a circular ring that wraps around the camera module with a 67mm filter thread.—
Ben Sin,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Removing a bathtub ring is nothing hard or strenuous.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
2 May 2025
Verb
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Sure, Italians look darn elegant and effortless sipping a spritz, but that cigar ring clinking the glass is purposefully chosen and those sunglasses (likely bought at the local ottica) weren’t just a quick find at a gas station.—
Nneya Richards,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Mar. 2025
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Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.—
Kim Hyatt,
Star Tribune,
23 July 2021
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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