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Recent Examples of gong
Prices at the auction were gong up and up.
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Usa Today, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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Future transshipment rules, for instance, could ding individual components that are made in one country—China, again, is a good bet—and then integrated into a product without enough of a transformation in another before winding up in the United States.—
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La Cañada resident Trent Sanders, who frequently dings California’s liberal politicos in emails to me and my colleagues, thinks Trump is generally on the right track three months into his term, but with a few caveats.—
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In one lavish dinner scene, revelers carry on their conversations amid a cacophony of clanging silverware.—
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Purdy helped provide a big momentum boost with a 33-yard strike to Kittle directly into the wind with 15 seconds to play that set up a 25-yard field goal by Matt Gay, with the ball hitting the upright and clanging through for three points and a 10-8 halftime lead.—
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Imagine a long, muscular capacitor that can ping, probe, and punch.—
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Everything — from the app that pings the cookie drops to the branding strategy that weaponizes nostalgia and novelty — emanates from this Provo facility.—
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
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The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.—
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Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.—
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The soothing, deeply resonant humming of the bowls and sparkling tinkling of chimes filled the room.—
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Federal buildings became sites of protests, including those resulting in protesters clashing with law enforcement.—
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Throughout pretrial proceedings, attorneys repeatedly clashed over whether political expression related to Gaza could be considered a legitimate defense.—
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So the pair took a romp through wine country for Christina’s birthday, clinking glasses at Progeny Winery in Napa Valley and Restoration Hardware in Yountville.—
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Later on, the younger kids in bed, a gathering of lawn chairs, clinking ice, and summer crickets or cicadas, frogs, whatever, Ray, what is that?—
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That took him to 14, but Khawaja was out three runs later, missing a full toss from Carse that plonked into his back foot.—
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Hudson/Claire plunks a few notes on the funky upright piano to echo the song’s iconic bass riff.—
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“Gong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gong. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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