zing
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There is nothing fresh or original here, no wit or zing, no pressure on language or form or voice or thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
After baking and cooling, each pie gets a brown sugar–orange glaze that hardens just enough to crack when you bite, a sprinkle of flaky Turbinado sugar, and, yes, more orange zest for that extra zing.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
As part of that transformation, Bieniemy unfurled zing to go with the bling, mixing in a few choice words as part of his message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
And again, pink upon pink, a little zing zigzagging up her arm.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
If I have to have a very difficult conversation, am I going to feel the zings and zaps of anxiety, stress and fear?
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
The amorphousness of the series — which zings between parodic edge and epiphanies — might be a function of its peculiar DNA.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023
Yet as he lay horizontally watching the show in his red bunk bed, those same yips and mews and zings never got old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Some chopped tomatoes and cucumbers offer texture and a change of pace; lemon juice zings through it all.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
When the stone is speeding, it is aimed, one string is released, and the stone zings to its mark.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
As Stinson’s anxiety appeared to be spiraling, Trevino — looking at his cap — zinged him: “Dodgers, are you kidding me?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
John Updike zinged him on several occasions and gave an unpleasant lawyer the name Gilman in his novel “S.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
In 2019, Lukas zinged trainer Mark Casse by saying they combined with Bob Baffert for 29 Triple Crown victories: 14 for Lukas and 15 for Baffert.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022
In a scrimmage at the stadium, Lawrence rolled out to his right, stood up statue-straight and zinged a laser to the fingertips of a receiver 40 yards upfield.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
The hornets zinged about waiting for snouts to break the surface.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
From the control room next door, the animals show up as dots on the computer monitors, looking like remote-control Ping-Pong balls zinging around the room and occasionally coming to rest in odd corners.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023
I remember stopping at a house under construction, its windows dark and hollow, and having the zinging revelation that everything — everything — is in some state of in-between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Even as they looked back on their years of friendship and collaboration in a video interview earlier this summer, they couldn’t help falling into a familiar rhythm of affectionately zinging and zetzing each other.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Director Peter Florence said: "We'll be zinging the programme as if from a green field in Wales."
From BBC ● May 6, 2020
One of the reasons laughter is so effective as a tool for persuasion—and any stand-up comic who has ever seen off a heckler with a zinging one-liner knows this—is that laughter is involuntary assent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
