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Recent Examples of prong
Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 8 Dec. 2024
My carpenter friend informs me that the prongs on a rake are also called tines.
—Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024
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
All four sides are designed to contour to different areas of the face for effective massage; the prongs also work as a scalp massager.
—Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 8 Dec. 2024
My carpenter friend informs me that the prongs on a rake are also called tines.
—Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prong
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Its most prominent feature is the third antler, which looks like an extra brow tine and juts out from his forehead.Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 4 Dec. 2024
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My carpenter friend informs me that the prongs on a rake are also called tines.Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024
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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
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And then also reducing the amount of surface coverage on the band itself by also removing and perforating.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
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Both Lowe's and HGTV recommend a scoring tool or sandpaper to perforate the paper slightly so the water solution has easier access to the adhesive.Anna Kaufman, The Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2024
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The previous night, Audra McDonald hugged her during a scene and one of the many bobby pins in Woods’s wig pricked her head, making her bleed.Dina Litovsky, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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The first lancet pricked my skin with alarming precision.David Oliver, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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Becoming Queen Zulu Amid her groundbreaking work in Louisiana, Macias was unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight in a different arena: Mardi Gras.Javier Hasse, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Threat level: When elevators are out of order, people who are unable to take the stairs or have difficulty doing so are thrust into a crisis.Nathan Bomey, Axios, 5 Jan. 2025
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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 16 Jan. 2025.
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