zing
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The finished dumpling — which can be enjoyed as a quick snack or meal — is deliciously pillowy and spicy with a hint of zing.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026
The real zing comes from her addition of toasted and crushed Sichuan peppercorns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The devil cuts loose, zing boom! — that capture Hedda’s feverish mood shifts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
Then they would zing upward and fly ponderously on clacking wings for a few feet and disappear in the grass again.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
It’s a salad that can sit in the fridge for days without losing its snap, yet it’s never inert: a forkful zings, a little sweet, a little tart, a little green, a little peppery.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
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
St. Aubyn zings our pathetic attempts to live more aware lives.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2021
The truth of that sentence zings through me, zillions of times stronger than any shin pain.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
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
Now on the mound, the lefty zinged it.
From Fox News ● Sep. 20, 2021
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
"This is one of those few shows that I'm involved in where I can go 'you need to come. It's really good', because the zinging one-liners are all his."
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
In the case of “Marty Supreme,” set in the early 1950s, that means a radical use of electronica: sequenced beats, zinging harps and treated choir voices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
The Hebrew-school comedy “Tahara” mimics the zinging pleasure of overhearing teenagers chatter as they walk home from school: It’s gossipy, delicious and a tad cruel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
Yes, it was true that panic was shooting up and down my spine and zinging out to my fingertips.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
