gong

The first was in 1994, when the Fed hit that proverbial gong by launching a pre-emptive strike on inflation that would push the federal-funds rate target to 6%, from 3%, in one year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

There is even a gong, which is used to celebrate business milestones, new funding rounds or anything else worth marking with a ceremonial bang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The band's Noel Gallagher was in attendance to collect the gong for songwriter of the year.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Every 10 minutes or so, a gong rang and an announcer proclaimed a new act was set to start — a magic show, a mariachi, a wandering gorilla.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

The starter’s silver-plated gong rang, a sprocket turned, a valve opened, and the engine whooshed to life on exquisitely machined shafts and bearings.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.

From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025

“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

The disaster-struck duo's latest outing, Vengeance Most Fowl, scooped two gongs at the Baftas on Sunday.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025

“Election Night” was free of blingy graphics, screeching chyrons and doom-soaked gongs and bells at the top of each hour.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2024

Sam heard a burst of hoarse singing, blaring of horns and banging of gongs, a hideous clamour.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

“No, I wasn’t gonged, thank goodness,” Ms. Mohawk wrote in a 2016 post on the blog Rockasteria.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

But the critics have also been saying that, as a unit, the Beach Boys are singing well, and not fit to be gonged just yet.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2012

The weather had begun to seep through our Polartec defenses, numbing our joints; water and pen ink were solids; cheese sticks gonged against canteens.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012

Meanwhile, as a standup, he was being gonged off stage at have-a-go comedy nights before he'd said a word – for looking young and wearing silly jumpers.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011

The metal trash can gonged as he spat the gum inside.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

At one point, in a truly shameless bid for self-referential humor, Sierra is disrupted in bed by the gonging tu-dum of the Netflix logo and an ad for another Netflix holiday movie.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

Each episode begins with an eerie drone, gonging over otherwise silent images of the cast meaningfully staring at things.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2020

We rode through a forest that smelled like sage and pine, the cowbells still gonging their ancient melody ahead of us.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2018

The clicking of gears that she had felt almost her whole life was now more like the gonging of a bell.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill