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click

[klik] / klɪk /
NOUN
metallic sound
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VERB
make a slight sharp sound
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NFL linebacker-turned-anayst Tedy Bruschi pondered as much this week in breaking down why the relationship between the Chargers’ quarterback and offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel has yet to click.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Devitt made the argument that Amazon’s retail operations are actually likely to benefit from agentic commerce, even if consumers click on fewer ads because they’re using AI agents to shop.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Tomato soup was the one that made this click for me.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

When users click external URLs to apply for jobs, the website urges vigilance through a pop-up notification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

It took a moment for what he was seeing to click into place in his brain.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Close to half of the Zillow clicks to view rentals in Austin, Texas, came from outsiders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"So, anyone claiming that was spreading lies, misinformation, to generate clicks on social media, to whip up the community, wind people up and this is the upshot of it."

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

She clicks on the preview and hits play.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Clad in a blue suit and squinting at a computer screen in his office, Putin leaned forward and clicked his mouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Three months into the venture, OpenAI introduced its tool that helps track the purchase activity of users who clicked on ads to prove they worked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Everton's late equaliser would have felt like a loss last weekend, but United still haven't clicked in attack yet, and that's part of the problem for them.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The platform recently added a “seems like AI slop” reporting option on posts, which more than 1 million people have already clicked.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

When Grandma knocked on my door and told me to go to bed, I clicked off my lamp and stared out through the dark window, watching sleet flash through the yellow glow of the streetlight.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

"The team is together for longer, more training sessions, more meetings, more of the same language. You see improvements and automatisms clicking in. We made it a very good camp."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

You don’t enjoy clicking around a bunch looking for a table, so you instruct an agent to do it for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

OpenAI has introduced new ad formats, a self-serve platform, and a tool to track user purchase activity after clicking ads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

“It’s incredible for Ruby to be clicking this fast at a new position. As for Brooklyn, she’s so gifted at reading the quarterback. She had two pick-sixes at the Ventura Showcase.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

He explains how moving it around and clicking on it controls the little arrow on the screen, doing the same thing the flat pad of our old laptop did.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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