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Requiring only the first prong, she said, would obliterate any need for agents to make an assessment of a person’s ties to the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The first prong is to reduce the litigation threat that often surrounds the companies that offer these products.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

On Tuesday, though, Gorsuch added a new prong to the test: State officials, he wrote, must provide “voluntary and knowing consent” to be sued if they violate rights established under the spending clause.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Close to 60 defendants have been convicted, and federal prosecutors last week charged the 78th person in a prong of the cases that authorities called “the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

“Oh, all right,” grumbled Fadi, handing her the wooden spoon while he kept the steel fork with the crooked prong.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

For Cliffel, her treatment plan had many prongs.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The sterile procedure would need to be temporarily halted while a nasal cannula with nasal prongs was placed in both nostrils and the delivery of oxygen was begun.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025

A hospital near the border had already staked a fixator, a long metal rod with steel prongs on either end, into her leg to stabilize the bone and help control the bleeding.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

The comb has a base to contain hair products, nozzles in between the prongs of the comb, and a trigger to help the user dispense the hair product as they use the comb.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

He jabbed the prongs into the ditch, under an open grate, and laughed.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Standing on four pronged feet at the junction of two rivers, O’Donnell + Tuomey’s five-story design resembles a giant chipped molar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Harjeet Singh of Climate Action Network International says the world needs a two pronged approach.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2023

The blade is sharp enough to cut through dense cheeses, while the pronged tip can be used to pick up individual pieces.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

A trial judge had found Costco liable for selling the disputed rings, despite its claim that Tiffany had become a generic term and described the rings’ pronged setting.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021

To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Indeed, the fact that we still use these ancient implements for pronging and slicing made me realise how little things change.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2012

No tail-twisting is necessary - no iron pronging is necessary.

From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens

I'm sitting peacefully in my room at the hotel in Chicago, pronging a few cents' worth of scrambled eggs and reading the morning paper, when the telephone rings.

From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

About now,' said Mr Birdsey, looking at his watch, 'I guess they'll be pronging the hors d'oeuvres and gazing at the empty chair.

From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

This last Remark was intended for an inoffensive Person who had slipped in to get a Rhine Wine and Seltzer, and was pronging about Forty Cents' Worth of Lunch.

From More Fables by George Ade