gong

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Verb
  • Each application requires the card issuer or lender to pull your credit report, which results in a hard inquiry on your report and dings your credit score a few points.
    Dan Avery, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Splitting carries with Kareem Hunt dings Pacheco’s fantasy value.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • First, David Pastrnak set up Geekie for a one-timer but, with much of the net at which to shoot, Geekie clanged the near post.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • That pinging sound from your multiple devices could be your new American Idol.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The Dow Jones industrial average edged down by 11 points, or less than 0.1%, after pinging between a loss of 480 points and a gain of nearly 140, while the Nasdaq composite added 0.9%.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The first half of the instrumental sounds like wind chimes jingling around in a storm.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Shaking the capsules produces audio signals that range from rattling stones, over tinkling coins to swooshing sand.
    Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Oct. 2018
  • Jeff Goldblum tinkled the ivories during a moving In Memoriam section at the BAFTA Film Awards.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Without this deeper awareness, feedback may unintentionally clash with someone’s cultural expectations.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Throughout 2020, Bottoms often clashed with Kemp over COVID-19 policies during the height of protests against police brutality in communities of color.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • The Yankees scored two more runs in the fourth frame after Domínguez was plunked and Cabrera walked with the bases loaded.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • What was particularly fun for Fleck was to plunk the stories in actual locations that hold fond, personal meaning to him, even if the original businesses are no longer there — such as the Loard’s Ice Cream on MacArthur Boulevard or Sweet Jimmie’s club and gathering spot, home now to The New Parish.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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