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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.
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Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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.
The game didn’t ping me with notifications every few minutes.
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Jessica Ewing
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Authorities said Casey’s phone was pinged and later showed a remote spot between Thunder mountain trail and Nugget Creek trail, which prompted rescue teams to respond to the area of the ping.
Dogs showing signs of separation anxiety may benefit from gradual desensitization to being alone and learning to dissociate cues like jingling keys from being left alone.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
Some hikers wear small bells that jingle while walking, signaling their presence to animals.
The soothing, deeply resonant humming of the bowls and sparkling tinkling of chimes filled the room.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025
The herds are decked out in crowns of flowers, and the air will be noisy, full of tinkling bells as the cattle trudge down from the higher Alpine pastures to the lower stretches of greenery in and around this town.
Prices have jumped by more than 40 percent since the beginning of the pandemic, as historically low mortgage rates between 2020 and 2022 triggered a homebuying frenzy that clashed with chronically low supply across the country.
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Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
But over-protective matriarch Gladys Gibbes (Octavia Spencer) is a celebrity chef who clashes with Rachel.
But there is a big part of me that just needs a photo of Martin Scorsese and alt-comic Robby Hoffman clinking their Emmy statues together.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
6 Sep. 2025
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.
The Dodgers were more than willing recipients an inning later when Freddie Freeman followed two more Cease walks with a lazy fly ball to center field that drifted toward the track and clanked off Jackson Merrill’s glove to bring home two more runs.
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Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
17 Aug. 2025
How naive of me to expect that those in the public eye would at least pretend to possess tact, diplomacy, magnanimity and graciousness rather than bark and growl like an angry pit bull on a thick clanking chain.
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