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The first prong is to reduce the litigation threat that often surrounds the companies that offer these products.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

On Tuesday, though, Gorsuch added a new prong to the test: State officials, he wrote, must provide “voluntary and knowing consent” to be sued if they violate rights established under the spending clause.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 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

I wanted to get more doughnuts, but it was this debate between getting more doughnuts, which were really good doughnuts, but not being able to stand up because 1 had complete prong.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

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

He remains optimistic that other prongs of the reparations recommendations will be more popular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

The shells’ sharp prongs scratched my hands like cat’s claws and, sometimes, dug into the corner of my fingernails and made them bleed.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez

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

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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

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 Henry Austin

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

From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens

About now,' said Mr Birdsey, looking at his watch, 'I guess they'll be pronging the hors d'oeuvres and gazing at the empty chair.

From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse