prong
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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
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 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
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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
He remains optimistic that other prongs of the reparations recommendations will be more popular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
But the tube attached to his arm, and a different one wrapped around his ears with prongs stuck up his nose, and the hanging bag of clear liquid drip-drip-dripping beside his bed?
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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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
It's two pronged: people you love, and taking care of those relationships, which requires work and intentionality and thoughtfulness and communication.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
Their eyes swept the walls like searchlights, revealing each mounted, stuffed head in turn: the furred ears, the massive pronged antlers, the bared teeth—all the dead yet sickeningly lifelike trophies of Lord Fredrick’s hunting habit.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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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 Robert Smith Surtees
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
No tail-twisting is necessary - no iron pronging is necessary.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
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
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