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Recent Examples of ping
Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
Smart sensors provide a hygienic, no-touch experience and also ping Throne-control with issues like low TP.
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
Residents began to flee their homes after their phones began pinging with text messages from Israel and calls from unknown numbers urging them to evacuate immediately.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
The whys, what-ifs and what-nows pinged around Patrick’s brain for those five hours afterward.
—Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
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Verb
This may leave you pinging back and forth between keeping your circle small and showing off to as many people as possible.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
Smart sensors provide a hygienic, no-touch experience and also ping Throne-control with issues like low TP.
—Anna Spiegel, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
Residents began to flee their homes after their phones began pinging with text messages from Israel and calls from unknown numbers urging them to evacuate immediately.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
The whys, what-ifs and what-nows pinged around Patrick’s brain for those five hours afterward.
—Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ping
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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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In the finished dish, the gentle heat of the curry and the sweetness of the warm pudding were offset by the cool, tangy white sauce and a salty plink of caviar at the end of each bite.Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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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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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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There are all sorts of weird noises coming from the lake — like, clanging sounds — and Paris’s dog keeps barking at it for no reason.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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There's an uncanny, alien quality to her voice, which unfurls like incense smoke, while the track's speckled bongos and subtle chimes glint like light reflected off a cocktail glass.EW.com, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Acrylic paint on wood, guitar, drums, triangle and chimes.Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2024
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As of April, Mizuhara had net losses of $40.2 million with the ring, the complaint states.Matt Rybaltowski, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year, French, Italian, and Swiss police forces teamed up to bust a ring of wine fraudsters who were selling counterfeited Grand Cru wines (the premier designation of quality in French wine) for up to €15,000 a bottle.Chris Hall, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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And then Mangold and I clink our teacups together in a kind of homage to both Now, Voyager and to Bob Dylan, the man himself.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
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The party guests—the artist-honorees and their partners, collectors, museum trustees, funders, and hangers-on—were clad in their finest evening attire, clinking champagne flutes and posing for pictures at a pre-dinner reception on The Shed’s fourth floor.Helen Holmes, ARTnews.com, 19 Nov. 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 Dec. 2024.
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