- present participle of jangle.
jangling
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Trump used a fat black marker pen to sign the deal, with the crockery jangling on the table after the dinner or lobster and caviar, as he put pen to paper.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
But nerves are jangling inside Labour because of what many see as unforced errors.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2024
A jangling set of house keys was once synonymous with American success: the striver’s ultimate prize.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
I had a jangling headache, and each footstep was sending bolts up my skull.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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