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Recent Examples of ping
Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
One screaming return on to Nakashima’s toes brought up match point; the next one pinged off his racket and landed way out of bounds.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
The laptop stays open, the phone keeps pinging, and true rest remains out of reach.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
DirecTV sources were quick to ping me the next day to note that bars and restaurants didn’t experience any of the latency issues that millions at home battled during the fight and its undercards.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Soon after, Saavedra admitted to traveling to an L.A. neighborhood where the phone was pinging and spotting Zelocchi outside a residence in an apartment complex.
—Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
One screaming return on to Nakashima’s toes brought up match point; the next one pinged off his racket and landed way out of bounds.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
The laptop stays open, the phone keeps pinging, and true rest remains out of reach.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
DirecTV sources were quick to ping me the next day to note that bars and restaurants didn’t experience any of the latency issues that millions at home battled during the fight and its undercards.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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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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Splitting carries with Kareem Hunt dings Pacheco’s fantasy value.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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The timer also dings loudly, which some users may find irritating.—
Caroline Thomason,
Health,
9 Mar. 2023
Noun
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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
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Many of the ringers wore earplugs or headphones to muffle the deafening peals.—
Joseph Wilson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 July 2024
Verb
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Sam Hauser had a chance to extend that lead moments later after Tatum stole a pass and sprung him for a fast break, but his wide-open dunk attack clanged off the rim.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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In the 2020 postseason, Tucker hit the left upright from 41 yards away on the opening drive and clanged the right upright from 46 yards before making a 34-yarder right before halftime of Buffalo’s 17-3 victory.—
Tim Graham,
The Athletic,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Barclays’ outlook for the U.S. chimes with other companies’ projections of robust growth in the U.S. this year.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
14 Jan. 2025
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The doorbell comes with an oval plug-in chime box measuring 2.8 by 1.8 by 1.7 inches, two mounting plates and assorted mounting hardware, adhesive mounting pads, extension cables for hardwiring, and a quick start guide.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Kravitz and Channing Tatum ended their engagement in the fall of 2024, confirmed after Kravitz was photographed out and about without her diamond engagement ring.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
29 Jan. 2025
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In 2010, William proposed to Kate with his late mother's engagement ring.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
29 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Swift was seen on camera clinking champagne glasses with Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z, after the Cowboy Carter artist accepted her Grammy onstage on Feb. 2.—
Lindsay Kimble,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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In the final moments of the broadcast she was shown clinking glasses with Jay-Z as his wife, Beyoncé, accepted the night's top honor, album of the year, for the first time.—
Bryan West,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 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 Feb. 2025.
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