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Recent Examples of ping
Christopher Null, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Google DeepMind’s best Go model can play a virtual game in seconds, but physics limits how fast a ball can ping and pong.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
As many as four devices that regularly pinged from Ramstein Air Base were later tracked to nearby brothels off base, including a multistory facility called SexWorld.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
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
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Verb
Users can take an on-demand hearing test on their iPhone—the earbuds ping each ear with different frequencies at varying volumes.
—Christopher Null, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Google DeepMind’s best Go model can play a virtual game in seconds, but physics limits how fast a ball can ping and pong.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
As many as four devices that regularly pinged from Ramstein Air Base were later tracked to nearby brothels off base, including a multistory facility called SexWorld.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2024
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
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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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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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Starkey is disarming and immediately easy to talk to, stopping mid-conversation to explain the interruption of the chimes of his bird clock: a gift from a friend in honor of the one his grandmother used to have.Leigh Nordstrom, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, the lock has a doorbell button and a chime box.PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 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
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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 5 Jan. 2025.
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