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Requiring only the first prong, she said, would obliterate any need for agents to make an assessment of a person’s ties to the community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

A dozen times one prong was unfastened and a nickel fished out with a knife to provide Johnny with car-fare to get to a job.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

The newer models deliver a similar voltage but have a range of 45 feet and 10 metallic prongs instead of two, which can be fired individually to give officers better control and accuracy, Reina said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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

Ah, so one waffle square fits the ratio of prongs to dough.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

Hobbled by a knee problem, Francis leaned on a walking stick with a pronged support base to inch forward for a better view of the crowd below.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2022

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

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

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

From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens

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

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