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[prawng, prong] / prɔŋ, prɒŋ /


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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 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

And that comes to the second prong of the agreement: rejecting certain credit cards.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

This brings us to the next behavioral prong of CBT-I: changing your habits for getting in and out of bed.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2025

I wanted to get more doughnuts, but it was this debate between getting more doughnuts, which were really good doughnuts, but not being able to stand up because 1 had complete prong.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

For Cliffel, her treatment plan had many prongs.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

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 remains optimistic that other prongs of the reparations recommendations will be more popular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

The ring had a red stone held by tiny prongs which I loosened, took the stone out, leaving the sharp tiny prongs jutting up.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens




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