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as in back
a vulnerable point
before the tournament she studied tapes of her chief rival, looking for the chink in her game
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Recent Examples of chink
Todd Boss, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Liverpool come into this battle with some chinks in their armour.
—Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
However, some chinks in the armor have been exposed, and Johns failed to claim the No. 1 spot in either Men’s Singles or Men’s Doubles at the end of 2024.
—Todd Boss, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, Liverpool come into this battle with some chinks in their armour.
—Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
One of our challenges was thinking up a good chinking method that wouldn’t take an entire month.
—Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024
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Noun
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The Athletic reported in July that there was a feeling among coaching staff that there could be less reliability at the back this campaign, with the expectation of conceding 10 to 15 more goals but the hope, with Mbappe, of increasing the goalscoring significantly.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Loading your audio article PITTSBURGH — Cody Bellinger remained out of the Yankees’ lineup for the second straight day on Saturday, as the center fielder has been dealing with a stiff back.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This ornamental thyme can be used to fill in the sandy spaces between stepping stones or crevices in rock walls.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Mar. 2025
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Included is a dust brush to remove pet fur from furniture, and a crevice tool to get in between couch cushions and work along corners.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As seen in a video shared on X by royal reporter Rebecca English, the King and Queen clinked their drinks together before sipping it down in one go.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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But hey, the man clearly loves love and clinks his champagne glass until the happy couple performs another painful-looking kiss.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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Almost straight from the restart, France pressured Argentina into a hurried clearance, and from there France went straight for the jugular.—
Jonathan Clegg,
WSJ,
18 Dec. 2022
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Monica goes for the jugular, among other vulnerable body parts.—
Charles McNultyTheater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Dec. 2022
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The company’s drillers then inject water into the well, prying open the stone fissures and creating an artificial reservoir.—
Alexander C. Kaufman,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
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President Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) for Florida governor is revealing fissures among the state’s Republicans in a state that has become the center of the GOP universe.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
25 Feb. 2025
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Men dressed as 1880s gunfighters are forever clomping up and down wooden sidewalks with jingling spurs and holstered revolvers on their belts.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
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Small Victory was also an EP on that drama in which Reinhart plays Daisy Moriarty, who is dealing with a chaotic personal life, and becomes drawn into the underbelly of the internet.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Ferguson is a strong route runner, has the instincts to find the soft underbelly of a zone defense and wins 50-50 balls (Nix needs someone else to do this besides Courtland Sutton).—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
5 Mar. 2025
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On the global stage, the U.S. voted with Russia and other mostly authoritarian nations in opposing a UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a sign of the growing rift between the U.S. and its NATO allies.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
31 Mar. 2025
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The group briefly entered into a unity government with the PA's dominant Fatah faction, but a violent rift ensued, resulting in Hamas' successful takeover of Gaza in 2007.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Chink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chink. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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