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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

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

And that comes to the second prong of the agreement: rejecting certain credit cards.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 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

I gasp as a prong of her ring scratches my skin.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

The sterile procedure would need to be temporarily halted while a nasal cannula with nasal prongs was placed in both nostrils and the delivery of oxygen was begun.

From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025

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

Many of the aisles were lined with anti-theft mechanisms, including red magnets at the end of metal prongs holding items like eyelash curlers and an individual plastic cage around a $22 box of lice treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

I pressed against her and felt the sharp prongs of the rhinestone brooch on her left shoulder against my face.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2023

The blade is sharp enough to cut through dense cheeses, while the pronged tip can be used to pick up individual pieces.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022

A trial judge had found Costco liable for selling the disputed rings, despite its claim that Tiffany had become a generic term and described the rings’ pronged setting.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021

To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

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 Robert Smith Surtees

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