ping

It was a rare, unexplained, glitch in a system that blares out warnings of incoming attacks multiple times a day through loudspeaker announcements on the street and metro, and the collective ping of phone notifications.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Not long after the game ended, he heard the ping of a text message.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026

“Chalamet made the comment on a press tour for his movie about ping pong”—not a sport known for setting attendance records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The canteen, where staff were playing ping pong and pool just 24 hours earlier, was transformed into a nightclub with more than 400 guests.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

He drew another loop around me before swimming away, and as he sailed by, he made a ping.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

This is the kind of charge that pings around the internet but usually goes nowhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Beyond cellphone pings placing Rinderknecht in the general area where the fire began, Haney and his experts argue that authorities have few specifics from the terabytes of evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

If the phrasing pings on your internal generative AI radar, you’re not alone.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

My phone pings as I get in the back of the car.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

I’ve worked for many, and I know the distinct frustration of being pinged with, “Just checking in!” less than an hour after being asked how something is “coming along.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

If Uber Technologies wants to be pinged by Siri for ride requests, for instance, it will likely have to pay Apple a hefty fee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Phones pinged with constant texts from friends and relatives watching the news around the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026

Canadian women's skip Rachel Holman was pinged for a double-touch, as was Team GB's Bobby Lammie - both incidents not deliberate and the case of a lingering figure falling on to the granite.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026

The register pinged, and a sign saying ten dollars shot up.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

But she said she chose not to text them to see if they were safe, as a pinging sound might give their locations away.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

The last email occurs in August 2017 with Tisch pinging Epstein to tell him that he and a friend just had lunch and “were talking very fondly about you.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

My phone is pinging near constantly with alerts from Signal groups that exist to defend and support our community.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

Hochman said in the case of Kaye and DeLuca, investigators were eventually able to track Boodarian’s location by pinging his cellphone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025

They made hollow pinging sounds when they rolled against one another.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer