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 recovering from a serious hip injury, Breach has rediscovered her pinball zing.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
It was, to say the least, stunning: the dish was shaped in a geometric pattern, with pristinely poached chicken, masterfully handled vegetables and a milky, creamy sauce with that familiar zing of ginger.
From Salon ● May 30, 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
We all knew he was just joking and that whatever zing he was gonna attempt was just gonna be silly, but still, this was Sunny.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
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
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
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 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
An older generation of America’s pop music writers will jump right to the index to see how he’s zinged them, in his anxiety not to be lumped among their clueless number.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
The Swiss left wing zinged a slap shot on a power play from the circle that sneaked underneath Fleury's pad.
From Fox News ● May 27, 2021
“Stop it!” she finally screamed when one of my darts zinged her book.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
Still, theater critics zinging Zacharia’s lack of polish are missing the point.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
"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
This zinging back-and-forth is also in evidence in the film, in which these sisters metaphorically tear each other apart and then try to heal the wounds that have festered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
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
Without even looking, he catches a ball that comes zinging our way and flings it back to home.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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