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[ring] / rɪŋ /








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If 100 influencers wanted to post selfies of themselves curbside in the muck at Dwars door Vlaanderen, I would fly to Belgium to carry their ring lights.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

“Homeland isn’t really an American word; it’s not something we used to say or say now. It has a vaguely Teutonic ring — We must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!”

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Since fighting his first professional match in 2020, Vargas Jr. himself has built a steady record in the ring with 15 knockouts in 17 wins.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Every year on 11 September, bells ring to commemorate the exact time that each of the four planes crashed, and the exact time the Twin Towers fell.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

He took off his bowler and fanned himself, the ring of white hair around his shiny scalp fluttering from the air churned up by the hat.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Murillo rang up tortillas, cuts of meat, and three-liter Mexican soda bottles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

On Saturday night, under the world-famous Wembley arch, five words rang out: "Punjabi Aa Gaye Wembley Oye!"

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

On June 23, Michael Cembalest rang the alarm on semiconductor stocks.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

However, when the phone rang at his home in Madrid, it was not the news he had wished for.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

Tansy grabbed up the cowbell on her desk and rang it over her head, introducing a new tradition to orthography.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Since 1982, policymakers and prominent economists have gathered in this valley ringed by mountains in Grand Teton National Park -- known to most people more for its bison than for spirited debates on macroeconomics.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Since 1982, policymakers and prominent economists have gathered in this remote valley ringed by mountains in Grand Teton National Park -- known to most people more for its bison than for spirited debates on macroeconomics.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

"I have ringed quite a few groups of five and four owlets this year. But this is the first brood of six I have found," he added.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The sports complex is ringed with four elephant-size logos of the apparel company, one of the perks of a $220 million naming-rights sponsorship that saw its brand splashed far and wide during the Super Bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

They crawled over rocks and down into tide pools and through the dead fields that ringed the island.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

But the inquiry has been examining whether alarm bells should have started ringing earlier, for example in June 2015 after three babies died in quick succession.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Alarm bells are ringing over AI after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit the company and issued a viral warning.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

If only the church bells would stop ringing even though their pull chains have been locked away for years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

"Had I decided to close the school after the period, nothing might be left, only the bell would be ringing at 9:30."

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

Lips chapped and tempers frayed, and the ceaseless ringing and jingling of the troika bells grew so wearisome, it was like something out of Poe.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

No one will give speeches at the ceremony, while bereaved family members will read out the names of all of those killed and a bell rung to mark major moments during the attack.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

And there is the middle rung, including business administration, urban studies and chemistry, whose graduates take home around $70,000 on average.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

“Condos really represent kind of the entry rung to the homeownership ladder,” Berner, the economist, said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Piatti preferred to send him to play on the Futures tour, the lowest rung of men's professional tennis.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

The doctor would have rung up from some cottage hospital.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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