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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 second prong is to clarify that these products can serve as a default investment option.

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

He could not help noticing that Dick, busy gouging under his fingernails with a fork prong, was uninterested in his dream.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Tiny grains of rice would inevitably fall through the prongs of the fork.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

It's two pronged: people you love, and taking care of those relationships, which requires work and intentionality and thoughtfulness and communication.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023

Hobbled by a knee problem, Francis leaned on a walking stick with a pronged support base to inch forward for a better view of the crowd below.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 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

Their eyes swept the walls like searchlights, revealing each mounted, stuffed head in turn: the furred ears, the massive pronged antlers, the bared teeth—all the dead yet sickeningly lifelike trophies of Lord Fredrick’s hunting habit.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

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 sir, no,' he continued, pronging another onion; 'I have some regard for the hinterest o' my master.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

While he was speaking he was pronging away with his spear down the companion-hatch, and the growling grew louder and fiercer.

From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin

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

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

From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens