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bonging

verb

present participle of bong

as in ringing

to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates church bells across the city bonged to mark the solemn occasion

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The bell, sans artist, continues to mark the passage of time, ringing every hour over the pavilion and its guests, a grotesque altar to the ongoing Venetian apocalypse.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Her phone was on the driver’s seat, ringing constantly, a police officer testified.

— Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2026

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Recently, Weigand visited the home of Regina and Van to service a 40-year-old grandfather clock that had stopped chiming.

— La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
The loud-mouthed cameos from ex-soccer players Zlatan Ibrahimović and Eric Cantona in Nike’s World Cup hero film Rip the Script were indicative of this, chiming with an older, more arrogant vision of Nike seen in the ’90s and the aughts.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026

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