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
There’s not much comic zing in the idea that a handful of selfish families rule the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
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
After recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
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
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
A sudden confession about her own precarious frame of mind zings like a shocking jolt from the pages.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2020
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
Mr. Biden’s list includes another prominent former Republican senator, Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a popular wisecracking moderate who worked across the aisle even as he zinged politicians and journalists with his sharp wit.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
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
Ernie and Genie had been outside having a snowball fight, and Down the Street Donnie, known for being a jerk, had covered a quarter in snow and zinged it at Genie.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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
This used to be easy duty for the aliens, but with missiles zinging everywhere, they may no longer be eager for Earth assignments.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Director Peter Florence said: "We'll be zinging the programme as if from a green field in Wales."
From BBC ● May 6, 2020
The swords opened and closed, scissoring madly, metal zinging along metal.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
