gong

The first was in 1994, when the Fed hit that proverbial gong by launching a pre-emptive strike on inflation that would push the federal-funds rate target to 6%, from 3%, in one year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

In 2024, Strictly's 20th anniversary year, the pair picked up the entertainment programme gong at the Bafta TV Awards.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

Downstairs the gong pealed a solemn call to lunch.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.

From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025

One Direction won seven gongs at the Brits in total before his band split up.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

As it now exists, it captures the supernatural tingle of little bells, as well as the heart-throb of gongs, all sounding off in the misty distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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

The sound of drums and gongs drew near again.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

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

Each episode begins with an eerie drone, gonging over otherwise silent images of the cast meaningfully staring at things.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2020

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

The gonging of its bells was so close that, standing on the balcony, I could feel their vibrations.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011

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