bonk
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Deputy Arthur Perry, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas during the shooting, testified Friday that when he tried to use his radio he only got a “bonk, bonk, bonk” noise.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin.
From Reuters ● Jan. 17, 2023
When glycogen stores burn, athletes are liable to bonk and fade.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
I don’t want to have to wonder whether or not the protagonists of these videos lived to tell the tale; I just want to see some toddlers not bonk their heads on tables.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2018
I bonk my head on the inside of my sleep cell as a soft voice speaks over the ship’s comm system, jolting me awake.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
My jaw is so misshapen that I can feel it wriggle out of joint whenever I open wide enough for a sandwich or a yawn, until it bonks back into place.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
Between broken bones — yes, plural — and bonks to the head, Spade’s corporate dork spends most of the mercifully short running time willing himself to be invisible.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
“When an elite runner bonks, their performance decline in absolute terms is smaller than when the rec runner bonks.”
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2016
Equipped with log slides, stump jibs, trashcan bonks, gap jumps, rope ollies, barrel jibs, old logo banners and all of the big jeans and flannel you can handle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Justin finishes his drink and bonks me lightly on my head with his fist.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
“I feel bad because I’m not a professional pitcher, so in trying not to hit my co-star, I bonked her more than once,” says Smart with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
Would we even know one if it bonked us on the heads?
From Slate ● May 9, 2019
“Lots of fluorescent lighting. Blue carpets, toilets, sinks — it just bonked you over the head with blue.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
Independent Journal Review revisits the time last year when Marco Rubio bonked a kid in a head with a football.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2016
He bonked the heel of his palm against his forehead.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
It darted around the bottom of a white bucket, bonking its nose against the side and delicately fluttering the translucent fins that swept back toward its tail.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
The team's trainers told Visger they were looking into rigging some kind of customized helmet, which would protect his brain shunt and allow him to continue bonking heads at the line of scrimmage.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2022
In addition to Myles Garrett’s indefinite suspension for bonking Steelers QB Mason Rudolph on the head with his own helmet, the NFL docked the Browns DE $45,623.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2019
Like Dorothy after bonking her head in that storm, reporters on Thursday found themselves in what seemed like an alternate universe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
He gestured to the hippocampi, who were bonking their heads apathetically against the glass.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
