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"My inbox went ping ping ping ping ping, so God knows what his was like," he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

You’re trying to wrap up a work call while bagging your kid’s outgrown clothes when a ping comes in from a parent chat — soccer registration just opened and spots are filling fast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Could Pavlovian ping alerts be fueling a collective attention deficit disorder?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

When they heard a button ping against the floorboards, they had to suppress their grins and look away.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He trades the plush G-funk popular in L.A. for a style more common in New York—all hard surfaces and rigid drums, with a barely-there melody that pings like sonar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

In the future, they could pay to be the apps that Siri pings to complete tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Prosecutors said the victim pressed his cell’s emergency call button, which turned on a green light outside his door and sent a series of pings to notify the guard on duty in the living area.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

"All I have is accelerometer data. We'll need radar pings at intervals to work out his true final orbit."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

FBI agent Andrew Kerstetter also presented evidence that Walters’ cellphone had pinged off a U.S.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Won’t you be able to see who or what pinged you when you pick up the phone in a few minutes any way out of habit?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

Matters got worse after passersby with guns pinged holes in some of the barrels, and the poisonous stuff soaked about 15 feet down into the desert soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

One of the stones Digger threw pinged off the metal mast.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

The penalty count against the visitors ramped up, with referee James Doleman pinging England nine times after the interval.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

When his phone finally sprang to life, it was pinging with three years' worth of messages, an inventory of loss: news of colleagues who had died, friends asking whether he was still alive.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

Cellphone pinging: Investigators, particularly those with FBI technical units, will use geo-fencing to scour the cell towers around Guthrie’s home for cellphone users.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

More and more pills fall down, pinging one by one as they bounce on the floor.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh