as in rattle
the loud sound made when metal strikes metal
the car is making a funny clank, and this can't be good
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Recent Examples of clank
Hazlitt,
10 Dec. 2025
What once was an offense dictated by feel and smarts has turned into a rote exercise of clank.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 Nov. 2025
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
Messi’s free kick clanked off the crossbar and Suarez put in the rebound, but it was ruled offside.
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Michelle Kaufman
april 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Other malls seem to be resisting this movement altogether, standing sentinel with their faux-brick tiling and plastic ferns, even as vendors abandon ship and their kiosks clank shut for the last time, having sold their final mutton roll or polyester-blend nightgown.
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Hazlitt,
10 Dec. 2025
What once was an offense dictated by feel and smarts has turned into a rote exercise of clank.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
27 Nov. 2025
Verb
Usually a team of elegant offense, Michigan instead clanked 13 triples off the rim and relied on its inside defensive ferocity to win a game nearly as aesthetically unpleasing as UConn’s 53-41 win over Butler in 2011.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
Messi’s free kick clanked off the crossbar and Suarez put in the rebound, but it was ruled offside.
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Michelle Kaufman
april 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clank
Noun
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Pygmy Rattlesnakes are small and colorful, around 15 to 20 inches in length, with a vertical pupil, thin tail, and tiny rattle.
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Elsewhere in the snippet of the music video, Latto could be seen walking around a white crib and viewing a scrapbook featuring a page with a rattle and dummy and a positive ClearBlue pregnancy test placed on top.
Verb
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There is the sound of laughter, clinking wine glasses, and lively conversations as everyone waits for the mystery wine tasting of the evening.
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Avtan often won’t tell Paz anything about the source or meaning of her many samples, which can take the form of fragmented dialogue and what sounds like clinking kitchenware.
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Brunson, who scored 36 and otherwise was the co-author of the comeback, had a 3-pointer clang off the front of the rim, but Anunoby soared over everyone to guide the miss and tip it in.
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The album’s official versions smooth out some of the buzzy sibilance of the bootlegs, but Hold Onto Me Infinity accommodates lots of tasteful clangs and wubs.
Verb
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Clicking and clacking, a tiny wooden marionette lifts an apple to his mouth ad infinitum.
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Babe, that clacking fan is long gone.
Noun
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But Kubo hasn’t played since suffering a meniscus tear in Japan’s opener against the Netherlands, and yesterday he was ruled out for the Brazil clash.
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At the heart of the clash is how to manage wild horse populations that can reproduce at a rapid clip.
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Many people watching the game on TV were surprised, since replays seemed to suggest Freuler had been offside before being clattered by Abunada.
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Below them, clattering on a dozen parallel tracks, the trains were coming and going, arriving and departing, thundering underground.
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Included in the five photos was a close-up shot of the singer's engagement ring created by Kindred Lubeck with Artifex Fine Jewelry.
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The slideshow on social media showed Kelce’s backyard transformed into a lush, floral garden as the pair embraced and showed off Swift’s new ring — a large diamond set in yellow gold.
Verb
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Sometimes crickets chirped in my head.
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As Photay, Shornstein—a master synthesist and producer—flits between atmospheric house, dubby breakbeat workouts, and chirping electro funk, building his songs’ arrangements into strange, angular shapes.
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“Clank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clank. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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