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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

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

One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

I inserted the prongs into the wall, and the object sent hot air blasting into my face!

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

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 beauty of this recipe is multi pronged.

From Salon Aug. 13, 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

A curious pronged symbol had been stamped onto the front.

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

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

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

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




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