dinged
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“We run a six-man rotation, and I just don’t want him to get dinged for not making a couple more starts that he potentially could have had,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Rising yields offer a chance for new investors to jump in, but existing investors get dinged as their older lower-yielding bonds decline in value.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
A suspicious spike in oil markets, Meta gets dinged, and OpenAI scraps Sora.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026
A slump in software stocks has dinged the group, with the Nasdaq down around 5.7% for 2026 so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Her phone dinged like crazy, and you could practically hear the nervousness coming through.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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