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Recent Examples of ping
Melvin Backman, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2024
Lo and behold, once the AI is in public hands, thousands or millions of users are now pinging away at the AI and likely veering significantly beyond that band.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Case in point: During cocktails before my birthday dinner, my phone pinged with a reminder alert for dinner.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 26 Dec. 2024
Given plenty of time and space, the Avs pinged the puck around until Makar found a shooting lane at the top of the zone and blew one by Kolosov with the help of an Artturi Lehkonen screen.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2024
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Verb
This will ping a spot on an interactive map to help find the misplaced item.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2024
Lo and behold, once the AI is in public hands, thousands or millions of users are now pinging away at the AI and likely veering significantly beyond that band.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Case in point: During cocktails before my birthday dinner, my phone pinged with a reminder alert for dinner.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 26 Dec. 2024
Given plenty of time and space, the Avs pinged the puck around until Makar found a shooting lane at the top of the zone and blew one by Kolosov with the help of an Artturi Lehkonen screen.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
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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
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The timer also dings loudly, which some users may find irritating.Caroline Thomason, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
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Teams may ding Miller for being a 20-year-old freshman, but the Alabama guard's skill as an offensive talent is undeniable.Michael Shapiro, Chron, 19 Jan. 2023
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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
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Erik Gustafsson’s shot clanged off the post and directly off of Alex Nedeljkovic’s back.Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Metro Boomin’s clanging trap beat guides their flows, shifting from icy and spartan to lush and dreamy and back.Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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The tower houses Deagan tubular chimes that ring on the hour and play an occasional hymn, DuMelle said.Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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The tradition involves eating one grape for each chime of the clock at midnight—often while underneath a table for extra luck.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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Tangent Only a small telescope will reveal Saturn’s rings, but 2025 is not the best year to look at them.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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After fear that all three of Pittsburgh Penguins star Evgeni Malkin's Stanley Cup rings had been stolen, all of them were reportedly found inside of his home.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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The couple dined on Taco Bell — one of Gomez’s favorite food places — and clinked champagne glasses while sitting on a picnic blanket.Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2024
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The chaotic sounds of feet tapping, knives clinking, and electroshocks buzzing create anxiety throughout the film, but when Para One’s music plays, the film communicates that de Saint Phalle has reached a breakthrough.Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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