zing
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There is nothing fresh or original here, no wit or zing, no pressure on language or form or voice or thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
There’s not much comic zing in the idea that a handful of selfish families rule the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
After baking and cooling, each pie gets a brown sugar–orange glaze that hardens just enough to crack when you bite, a sprinkle of flaky Turbinado sugar, and, yes, more orange zest for that extra zing.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Then they would zing upward and fly ponderously on clacking wings for a few feet and disappear in the grass again.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
It’s a salad that can sit in the fridge for days without losing its snap, yet it’s never inert: a forkful zings, a little sweet, a little tart, a little green, a little peppery.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
The fantasy sequences provide the film with momentary zings of energy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 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
Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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
John Updike zinged him on several occasions and gave an unpleasant lawyer the name Gilman in his novel “S.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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
In a scrimmage at the stadium, Lawrence rolled out to his right, stood up statue-straight and zinged a laser to the fingertips of a receiver 40 yards upfield.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
A tingling sensation zinged across my shoulders and up my neck.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
"This is one of those few shows that I'm involved in where I can go 'you need to come. It's really good', because the zinging one-liners are all his."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
In the case of “Marty Supreme,” set in the early 1950s, that means a radical use of electronica: sequenced beats, zinging harps and treated choir voices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
There was a funny feeling that traveled down Bridge’s legs sometimes—a zinging rush to her feet.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
