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Recent Examples of prong
Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
City provides a chance for grants The city’s approach to helping businesses survive the construction has several prongs: grants, online resources like FAQs and suggestions to prepare, and staffers dedicated to answering their questions.
—Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
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
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Noun
Mary, the affidavit says, had serious injuries to her face and two taser prongs under her right shoulder blade.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
City provides a chance for grants The city’s approach to helping businesses survive the construction has several prongs: grants, online resources like FAQs and suggestions to prepare, and staffers dedicated to answering their questions.
—Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prong
Noun
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The antlers were huge, and the tines were almost white.—
Jeffrey A. Brunk,
Outdoor Life,
10 Apr. 2025
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This type of optical diffraction makes small points of light take on the shape of the aperture and render as 14-point starbursts, but their tines lack definition, streaking out into multiple lines.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range).—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
15 Sep. 2023
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Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands.—
Mallory Creveling,
Health,
3 Sep. 2023
Verb
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There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.—
Paula Schleis,
cincinnati.com,
2 May 2020
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.—
Erik Heinrich,
BostonGlobe.com,
16 May 2018
Verb
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Grater-style zesters employ the same principle as a standard food or cheese grater and sport a longer metal shaft perforated with numerous small holes.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2025
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To remove anything securing the cardboard together, either use a sharp tool, such as a box cutter, to carefully perforate the tape at the edges, or use a flathead screwdriver to pop out staples.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ears pricked up when Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta delivered an unexpected compliment to the Chelsea side his team had just comfortably kept a clean sheet against.—
Jordan Campbell,
The Athletic,
17 Mar. 2025
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That was especially ripe to be pricked at a moment that is seeing the swearing-in of a new administration that has not exactly placed the protection of women’s rights or LGBTQ+ freedoms at the forefront of its agenda.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Suddenly, Fort Myers was thrust into the national spotlight as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration waited for officials to make their next move, threatening the loss of state and federal funds.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In the daffodil spears thrusting up through dead leaves, each stalk swells with the pulse of a blossom-to-be.—
Rosanna Warren,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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
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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 25 Apr. 2025.
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