rung
Example Sentences
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No wonder Dante, the Florence-born author of the “Divine Comedy,” consigned counterfeiters to the eighth circle of hell, “just one rung higher than Lucifer in the ninth.”
The last rung on that wall of worry is whether a shift in tech leadership could bring about another DeepSeek moment, when AI stocks slumped in the wake of the release of the Chinese model.
From MarketWatch
"I rung him and said I've been offered the opportunity to speak to a club. Rob said 'you have my blessing, go and smash it'. That was all I needed to hear."
From BBC
The trade’s unofficial motto—“deliver or die”—has never rung so true.
Arithmetic explains part of this: When the rungs on the ladder are closer together, it’s easier to climb.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
