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prong

[prawng, prong] / prɔŋ, prɒŋ /


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The second prong is to clarify that these products can serve as a default investment option.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

And that’s the next prong of the attack—that the Fed staff simply isn’t doing that correctly.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

Close to 60 defendants have been convicted, and federal prosecutors last week charged the 78th person in a prong of the cases that authorities called “the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

This brings us to the next behavioral prong of CBT-I: changing your habits for getting in and out of bed.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2025

He holds out both hands for my coat, hanging it on the prong of a swaying coatrack.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Bureau of Prisons officials then detained Anderson and searched his bag, where they found a large "barbeque type fork" with two prongs and a tool that resembles a pizza cutter.

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

A hospital near the border had already staked a fixator, a long metal rod with steel prongs on either end, into her leg to stabilize the bone and help control the bleeding.

From New York Times Nov. 26, 2024

The comb has a base to contain hair products, nozzles in between the prongs of the comb, and a trigger to help the user dispense the hair product as they use the comb.

From Washington Times Sep. 28, 2023

After talking for the better part of an hour with Spikes, the exiled and now returned king of MoviePass, I gleaned that the company’s case for future success has five prongs.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2023

Jessie touched the remaining wires to two small prongs coming down from an LED light, and the light blinked on.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

Standing on four pronged feet at the junction of two rivers, O’Donnell + Tuomey’s five-story design resembles a giant chipped molar.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Welsing says her office uses a three pronged approach to solving the problem of gun violence: prevention, intervention, and healing.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2024

Harjeet Singh of Climate Action Network International says the world needs a two pronged approach.

From Seattle Times Dec. 10, 2023

I give a two pronged approach in the book.

From Salon Dec. 13, 2021

Then they opened a small door in each cage and thrust the food through on pronged forks.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

Indeed, the fact that we still use these ancient implements for pronging and slicing made me realise how little things change.

From The Guardian Jun. 18, 2012

No sir, no,' he continued, pronging another onion; 'I have some regard for the hinterest o' my master.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

No tail-twisting is necessary - no iron pronging is necessary.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles

While he was speaking he was pronging away with his spear down the companion-hatch, and the growling grew louder and fiercer.

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

I'm sitting peacefully in my room at the hotel in Chicago, pronging a few cents' worth of scrambled eggs and reading the morning paper, when the telephone rings.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)




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