zing
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You can eat it on its own or as a topping to many of the other dishes if you want to add a little zing.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
The real zing comes from her addition of toasted and crushed Sichuan peppercorns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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
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
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
Momly threw one of her zings that sound too sweet to be a zing, which makes it zingier.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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
Jared Goff, who had turnovers to end two drives that inside the 30, zinged a pass to KhaDarel Hodge on a crossing route in the front of the goal posts for the lead.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 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
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
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
"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
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
Needing 2 yards, Allen got 23, on a pass to Diggs, then found him again three plays later, zinging an 11-yard touchdown that extended Buffalo’s lead to 17-7.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
He flew, zinging upward into the midst of the flock.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
