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rung

[ruhng] / rʌŋ /


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Hollywood types often strike a snarky and condescending tone when they peer down the ladder at the low rungs of show business—an excellent example is the 2017 comedy “The Disaster Artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The single opens with the sound of jingle bells being briskly rung.

From Salon

The missing lower rung in today’s career ladder isn’t a problem to be solved.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now 19, and having rung the "all-clear" from cancer bell in March, she says she is "coming out of the other side" and "loving life" at Manchester Metropolitan University.

From BBC

No wonder Dante, the Florence-born author of the “Divine Comedy,” consigned counterfeiters to the eighth circle of hell, “just one rung higher than Lucifer in the ninth.”

From The Wall Street Journal