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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

You can also be notified by way of the “Where’s My Ballot?” tracking tool if you have signed up for automatic notifications that will ping you if there are issues with your ballot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Lu - the 64-year-old president of the American Changle Association, a Chinese community group - argued he was simply trying to help people renew driver's licenses and facilitate social activities like mahjong and ping pong.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

In Australia, Surfshark’s ping times ranged from 281 to 422 ms, while NordVPN’s latency was lower — between 292 and 406 ms — based on test data.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Dad said they lost contact when the final ping came as they approached Alpha Centauri.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

After serving the search warrant on the phone provider, Rodriguez obtained GPS location pings associated with T.F.’s cellphone that showed he was in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

If the phrasing pings on your internal generative AI radar, you’re not alone.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

The elevator pings as he presses the button.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

If Uber Technologies wants to be pinged by Siri for ride requests, for instance, it will likely have to pay Apple a hefty fee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Canadian women's skip Rachel Holman was pinged for a double touch.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Malinin was 17 when Boitano’s figure skater group chat pinged with a video of the world’s first quad axel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

I was about to close my laptop so I could go get some clothes on and see what my mom wanted when a message pinged back.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

But sometimes, he says, it's nice to have a digital detox without his phone pinging.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

The Wi-Fi still worked—though he couldn’t answer, his phone kept pinging with updates and questions about the other Spirit planes Nomadic was supposed to ferry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 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

My phone is pinging near constantly with alerts from Signal groups that exist to defend and support our community.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

And he gestured toward Bello, whose DNA detector was pinging in the red.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman