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Recent Examples of plink
Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020
Mike Goodman raised his golf club in a graceful arc, uncoiled and — with a swift metallic plink — sent the white ball streaking over the first fairway of the Worthington Manor Golf Club in Frederick County.
—Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 7 May 2020
Aaron Smith, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
The seven-time Grammy-winning Newman, sheltering in place with his dog whining in the background, sat down at his piano and casually plinked out an offering as comfortable as macaroni and cheese.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
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Noun
That leaves us with the plink master, the first rifle many of us called our own, the humble .22.
—Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020
Mike Goodman raised his golf club in a graceful arc, uncoiled and — with a swift metallic plink — sent the white ball streaking over the first fairway of the Worthington Manor Golf Club in Frederick County.
—Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 7 May 2020
Verb
High capacity allows target shooters to plink away for longer periods without having to stop and laboriously handload.
—Aaron Smith, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
The seven-time Grammy-winning Newman, sheltering in place with his dog whining in the background, sat down at his piano and casually plinked out an offering as comfortable as macaroni and cheese.
—Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plink
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The call was pinged in the area of the Charles Hall Bridge on the Cherahola Skyway in Tellico Plains, a small mountain town in Tennessee with a population of about 800 people.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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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
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The latest: Over the summer, Premise sniped high-profile client Google from Amazon's One Medical, which had a longstanding worksite care partnership with the tech giant.Claire Rychlewski, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
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Lamar continued to snipe at Drake on his new album, GNX.Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 26 Nov. 2024
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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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The year is 2019; we’re plunked into the middle of a tense winner-take-all match between Josh and Art, with Tashi keeping an eagle eye on both men.Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
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Instead, Roberts watched Hudson plunk slumping Yankees star Aaron Judge, give up a long single off the wall to Jazz Chisholm Jr., then walk Giancarlo Stanton to load the bases.Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 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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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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Straight from the hotel docks, our captain showed us around the various villas and properties dotted around the lake, peppering in some historical and pop-culture factoids, like how the idyllic Villa Balbianello was featured in the Star Wars prequel films.Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 7 Dec. 2024
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Colleagues in the main lab were peppering her with questions about what to do about another batch of tests that appeared to have failed.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
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These sections get very loud, helped by the metal seats that perfectly clang from banging hands/gloves.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
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If Noel makes contact, on the other hand, the baseball clangs off the hull of the Goodtime III.Zack Meisel, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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“Plink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plink. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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