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But within just a few months, I’d reverted to my old habits—immediately glancing at and engaging with every ping and alert, and reflexively picking up my phone to scroll through my rotation of go-to websites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

We might play ping pong or a board game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

It was a rare, unexplained, glitch in a system that blares out warnings of incoming attacks multiple times a day through loudspeaker announcements on the street and metro, and the collective ping of phone notifications.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Lu - the 64-year-old president of the American Changle Association, a Chinese community group - argued he was simply trying to help people renew driver's licenses and facilitate social activities like mahjong and ping pong.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

A sharp ping sounded: the ball ricocheting off the armored back of one of those ankys.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Jets scrambled on the second occasion, but the lights and their radar pings disappeared when the planes got close.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He trades the plush G-funk popular in L.A. for a style more common in New York—all hard surfaces and rigid drums, with a barely-there melody that pings like sonar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

This is the kind of charge that pings around the internet but usually goes nowhere.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Beyond cellphone pings placing Rinderknecht in the general area where the fire began, Haney and his experts argue that authorities have few specifics from the terabytes of evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Your top-down system is heavily invested, and it gets reinforced by the bottom-up pings alerting you to what are, in a sense, plot updates.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Kerstetter further testified that Walters’ phone had pinged in Comanche only one other time during the preceding 11 months, about two weeks before the break-in.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I’ve worked for many, and I know the distinct frustration of being pinged with, “Just checking in!” less than an hour after being asked how something is “coming along.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Matters got worse after passersby with guns pinged holes in some of the barrels, and the poisonous stuff soaked about 15 feet down into the desert soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

If Uber Technologies wants to be pinged by Siri for ride requests, for instance, it will likely have to pay Apple a hefty fee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The elevator doors pinged open, and the group of obnoxious guys stepped in.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

He was in a bar in Halifax, West Yorkshire, with his wife when the sound of pinging phones began echoing around.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Cellphone pinging: Investigators, particularly those with FBI technical units, will use geo-fencing to scour the cell towers around Guthrie’s home for cellphone users.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

The last email occurs in August 2017 with Tisch pinging Epstein to tell him that he and a friend just had lunch and “were talking very fondly about you.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

My phone is pinging near constantly with alerts from Signal groups that exist to defend and support our community.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

Maybe Helen had been pinging for a long time, waiting for one of us to join her below the waves.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen