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Noun
Keep the cover on to keep the sharp prongs away from the rest of your essentials. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 The other prong is a $1 trillion loan and investment program called Belt and Road, through which China has been rolling out major infrastructure projects across the Global South. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
There’s no definitive diagnostic test for schizophrenia, so doctors will typically take a multi-pronged approach. Nina Bahadur, SELF, 15 Sep. 2018 Google, which has been under fire for being one of the biggest enablers of fake news, is now fighting back with a new multi-pronged, $300 million plan to elevate quality journalism. Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2018 See all Example Sentences for prong 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prong
Noun
  • Others are more about the visual appeal of the drop tine rack itself.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The electric field inside a microwave oven, which is only about a third as strong, can create a corona discharge, or electric arc, between the tines of a metal fork, so just imagine what might happen inside the electronics of the rectenna.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2024
Verb
  • There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
    Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
  • And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
    Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
Verb
  • This condition occurs when an untreated ulcer perforates the lining of the bowel, creating an opening to another area of the body, Melmed explains.
    Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Those talons are going to perforate a colon with a swiftness, and no one wants to go to the emergency room with a gel tip stuck in the rectum.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 July 2024
Verb
  • Orthodox and Conservative Jews require converts to immerse themselves in a mikvah, a ritual bath, and expect male converts to undergo circumcision or, if they are already circumcised, to be pricked to draw a ritual drop of blood.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The alternative is finger-stick testing, pricking fingertips to draw drops of blood to check glucose levels, often multiple times a day.
    Meg Tirrell, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • This year, the day marks the 83rd anniversary of the surprise attack that thrust the U.S. into World War II. More than 2,400 American service men and women were killed in the early attack launched by Japan at the United States Navy Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
  • France’s prime minister is expected to resign from his post after lawmakers passed a no-confidence measure against him and his Cabinet, likely thrusting the country into a period of political uncertainty.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
    CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.
    Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020

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“Prong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prong. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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