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Recent Examples of ping
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
The sheriff’s office attempted to ping the man’s phone but was unable to determine a location.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
The game didn’t ping me with notifications every few minutes.
—Jessica Ewing
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
InReach is used to send messages to other people using the Garmin Messenger app, to ping your location to them and for SOS alerts.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Imagine a long, muscular capacitor that can ping, probe, and punch.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
The sheriff’s office attempted to ping the man’s phone but was unable to determine a location.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
The game didn’t ping me with notifications every few minutes.
—Jessica Ewing
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
InReach is used to send messages to other people using the Garmin Messenger app, to ping your location to them and for SOS alerts.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
Noun
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Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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The orchestration — rich, fluid, and glistening with the vaguely exotic plinks of the cimbalom — has the plushness of an antique carpet.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
Verb
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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
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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
Noun
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This last part seemed to be a joke, eliciting a peal of laughter from his wife.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
3 Feb. 2026
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Amid grills cooking savory barbecue, bubbles blowing from an ice cream truck, face painting and peals of laughter from kids in a nearby bouncy house, Justine Mosely Stephens was struggling not to tear up.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
Verb
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Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
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There was an almost slapstick quality to ball after ball being heaved up, over and over, clanging against the rim or missing it altogether.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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May your sounds, your chimes, your silence calm us.—
Paul Jones,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Jan. 2026
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Accessibility and Sustainability Guest rooms are all in compliance with ADA, with many offering accessible clearance for wheelchairs and audible chimes for the hearing impaired.—
Carole Dixon,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Prices at the auction were gong up and up.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The dimming began gradually because the outer parts of the rings are thin, and only became obvious when the denser regions passed in front of the star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Henry, who was a Pro Bowl running back that played for three teams in his seven-year NFL career, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic cocaine for financing a drug ring that moved between Colorado and Montana.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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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
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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
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“Ping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ping. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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