prong
Example Sentences
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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
And that’s the next prong of the attack—that the Fed staff simply isn’t doing that correctly.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 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
One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing prong
The Circuit
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"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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Vocabulary from poems by Robert Frost
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