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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

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

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

A dozen times one prong was unfastened and a nickel fished out with a knife to provide Johnny with car-fare to get to a job.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Bureau of Prisons officials then detained Anderson and searched his bag, where they found a large "barbeque type fork" with two prongs and a tool that resembles a pizza cutter.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 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 liked best little green soft butter beans and he stacked them in a neat pile on the prongs of his fork.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

“We have a two pronged threat to American faith communities,” said Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernadino.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

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

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

A curious pronged symbol had been stamped onto the front.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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 Dickens, Charles

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 Austin, Henry

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 Surtees, Robert Smith

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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)