ping

Could Pavlovian ping alerts be fueling a collective attention deficit disorder?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

Except the guard didn’t come, and Jamie couldn’t relax until after he felt that final ping.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

Before Claude, Flieller received pings about stats such as heart-rate variability, or HRV, which generated more stress than clarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

After serving the search warrant on the phone provider, Rodriguez obtained GPS location pings associated with T.F.’s cellphone that showed he was in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

In the future, they could pay to be the apps that Siri pings to complete tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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

Muir was pinged as the experienced Hope Rogers grappled for set-piece supremacy.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

It loaded up the correct pages, pinged me when ready, and after I clicked, I let the agent finish the job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

FBI agent Andrew Kerstetter also presented evidence that Walters’ cellphone had pinged off a U.S.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Brophy is a hiker, and her Apple watch last pinged her at a trail head near the pond, according to the nonprofit support group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Jule kept up a steady stream of chatter until Brooke was in the car, but as soon as the cab pulled away, Immie’s phone pinged in her pocket.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

Kelleher chip-kicked for herself before pinging an over-shoulder pass that led to Church's second try.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026

It’s like the pinging of wind chimes at dawn on the Gulf of Mexico combined with the sound of ocean waves against the shore.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone