zing
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All around them, the zing is missing, the villains are lackluster, the energy is low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
It was, to say the least, stunning: the dish was shaped in a geometric pattern, with pristinely poached chicken, masterfully handled vegetables and a milky, creamy sauce with that familiar zing of ginger.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
The transfer from Appalachian State was taking the first repetitions during the roughly 12 minutes of practice drills reporters were allowed to watch Tuesday, firing passes with considerable zing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
Cejas’s story gallops on and on, and I feel her sparkle zing right through the phone and into my hand.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
If I have to have a very difficult conversation, am I going to feel the zings and zaps of anxiety, stress and fear?
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
When one of the band members wonders whether they will be heading south from Chicago, Sue zings, “It’s 1933. Look at me and ask that again.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2022
Yet as he lay horizontally watching the show in his red bunk bed, those same yips and mews and zings never got old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Some chopped tomatoes and cucumbers offer texture and a change of pace; lemon juice zings through it all.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
When the stone is speeding, it is aimed, one string is released, and the stone zings to its mark.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
As Stinson’s anxiety appeared to be spiraling, Trevino — looking at his cap — zinged him: “Dodgers, are you kidding me?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
Mr. Biden’s list includes another prominent former Republican senator, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular wisecracking moderate who worked across the aisle even as he zinged politicians and journalists with his sharp wit.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Constant said what shocked him was when about 200 people in the assembly chamber “cheered zealously. That was the part that zinged me and really took my breath away for a minute,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Now on the mound, the lefty zinged it.
From Fox News ● Sep. 20, 2021
It leapt with savage energy from the pad, zinged up the guide pole, and split the valley with its thunder.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
This zinging back-and-forth is also in evidence in the film, in which these sisters metaphorically tear each other apart and then try to heal the wounds that have festered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
From the control room next door, the animals show up as dots on the computer monitors, looking like remote-control Ping-Pong balls zinging around the room and occasionally coming to rest in odd corners.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023
The Hebrew-school comedy “Tahara” mimics the zinging pleasure of overhearing teenagers chatter as they walk home from school: It’s gossipy, delicious and a tad cruel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Slingsby couldn’t resist zinging Spithill, who has tried to play up his role as underdog to Australia and Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
One of the reasons laughter is so effective as a tool for persuasion—and any stand-up comic who has ever seen off a heckler with a zinging one-liner knows this—is that laughter is involuntary assent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
