gong
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In January, executives at Tang’s Z.AI—then known as Knowledge Atlas Technology, or Zhipu—struck the gong at the Hong Kong stock exchange, making it the first Chinese AI model startup to go public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A gong and hammer function as a doorbell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
However, she lost her best African music gong to fellow Nigerian singer Wizkid.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Weeks after winning the best new artist Grammy, she bagged the evening's most coveted Album Of The Year gong, beating out indie singer Sam Fender, rockers Wolf Alice, pop star Lily Allen and rapper Dave.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Viola sounded the gong at nine o’clock and woke me.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
In fact since 2007, 20 of the 29 gongs awarded for Europe's player of the year has gone to one of them.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
The disaster-struck duo's latest outing, Vengeance Most Fowl, scooped two gongs at the Baftas on Sunday.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
“Election Night” was free of blingy graphics, screeching chyrons and doom-soaked gongs and bells at the top of each hour.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2024
It was the only sound in camp, the only sound in Owens Valley, the mess hall bells, their gongs echoing between the Inyo Range and the nearby Sierras, their furthest ripples soaking into dry sand.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Those who weren’t gonged were rated by the judges on a 1-to-10 scale.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
But the critics have also been saying that, as a unit, the Beach Boys are singing well, and not fit to be gonged just yet.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
The weather had begun to seep through our Polartec defenses, numbing our joints; water and pen ink were solids; cheese sticks gonged against canteens.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012
Meanwhile, as a standup, he was being gonged off stage at have-a-go comedy nights before he'd said a word – for looking young and wearing silly jumpers.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011
The metal trash can gonged as he spat the gum inside.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
At one point, in a truly shameless bid for self-referential humor, Sierra is disrupted in bed by the gonging tu-dum of the Netflix logo and an ad for another Netflix holiday movie.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
We rode through a forest that smelled like sage and pine, the cowbells still gonging their ancient melody ahead of us.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
At the time, innovation meant linemen gonging their counterparts' helmets.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2012
The clicking of gears that she had felt almost her whole life was now more like the gonging of a bell.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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