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
You can eat it on its own or as a topping to many of the other dishes if you want to add a little zing.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
As part of that transformation, Bieniemy unfurled zing to go with the bling, mixing in a few choice words as part of his message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
He had eaten only half a box of old Red Hots that had lost their zing, and a pack of stale and crumbly peanut butter crackers nearly forgotten in his book bag.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
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
St. Aubyn zings our pathetic attempts to live more aware lives.
From New York Times ● May 31, 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
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
Jared Goff, who had turnovers to end two drives that inside the 30, zinged a pass to KhaDarel Hodge on a crossing route in the front of the goal posts for the lead.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 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
The hornets zinged about waiting for snouts to break the surface.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
Even as they looked back on their years of friendship and collaboration in a video interview earlier this summer, they couldn’t help falling into a familiar rhythm of affectionately zinging and zetzing each other.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Director Peter Florence said: "We'll be zinging the programme as if from a green field in Wales."
From BBC ● May 6, 2020
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
