gong

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Recent Examples of gong Prices at the auction were gong up and up. Usa Today, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gong
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Verb
  • Future transshipment rules, for instance, could ding individual components that are made in one country—China, again, is a good bet—and then integrated into a product without enough of a transformation in another before winding up in the United States.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Senior forward Javan Buchanan had a chance to restore the Broncos’ lead with a corner three with 13 seconds left, but could only clang his shot off the rim, while Gibbs-Lawhorn also missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Police have not been able to ping her phone either.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Ernst's travel log on the OCEARCH site as of Sunday, Feb. 1, indicates the female shark pinged again on Jan. 30, around 6 a.m. that day, south of Horn Island off the Mississippi coast.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The city’s more than 25-year-old parade marched down Crown Valley Parkway Saturday morning, Dec. 13, jingling all the way.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 14 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • The marbled, frescoed, octagonal room was domed to amplify the sound of a tinkling keys at the center, and hosted regular recitals.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Drawing Room is best for afternoon teas accompanied by a tinkling piano.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Last year, the budget process went into overtime as the two chambers fought over sales taxes and clashed with DeSantis.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This isn’t the first time a Ryan Murphy production has clashed with the estate of its subject.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The photo, which is embedded above, shows the three leading ladies Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss and Kate Mara clinking glasses with cheerful looks on their faces.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The clip showed the pair clinking spoons and laughing together, turning what began as a brief welfare check into a relaxed exchange between neighbors passing time during the outage.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The movie plunks us down at Mar-a-Lago, where Melania struts out the door and into the back of an SUV, which will take her to the red-white-and-blue private plane painted with the word TRUMP that’s waiting for her at the airport.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The Ritz-Carlton is the only hotel in its class that’s plunked itself down in an actual neighborhood instead of a dedicated business district.
    Brandon Presser, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026

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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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