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
  • Just leave your inability to suspend biblical amounts of disbelief at the door, and prepare to experience the absolute bone-chilling horror that is a constantly pinging smartphone.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
  • For a fee, the travel lounge offers customers respite from the rolling suitcases, travelers sprinting to gates and pinging devices often found inside the airport.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 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
  • Moscow's rejection of all U.S. proposals that do not concede to its demands like government change, demilitarization, and territorial concessions, clash with warnings by Rubio and Trump that the U.S. could walk away if there is no progress and suggest an end to hostilities is not imminent.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Anything with too many color combinations, however, could clash quickly.
    Bianca Kratky, Glamour, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Sure, Italians look darn elegant and effortless sipping a spritz, but that cigar ring clinking the glass is purposefully chosen and those sunglasses (likely bought at the local ottica) weren’t just a quick find at a gas station.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Kendall Jenner clinks glasses with Billy Dec at the Blueprint Underground Cocktail Club in Nashville, Tennessee on March 13.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Marte, hitting at the top of the order in place of Francisco Lindor, was plunked by Quantrill to put two on with none out.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • On his 88th pitch of the day, Hicks plunked Justin Turner and his afternoon was over.
    Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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