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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

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

“Oh, all right,” grumbled Fadi, handing her the wooden spoon while he kept the steel fork with the crooked prong.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

For Cliffel, her treatment plan had many prongs.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

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

The unity agenda is a bundle of proposed actions with four prongs: beating the opioid epidemic, tackling mental health issues, supporting veterans and ending cancer.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

Scipio ran a finger over the prongs of his fork.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

Anya snatched a pitchfork from its place on the wall, pointing the pronged end at the dragon.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

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

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 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

This last Remark was intended for an inoffensive Person who had slipped in to get a Rhine Wine and Seltzer, and was pronging about Forty Cents' Worth of Lunch.

From More Fables by George Ade