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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ping.

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Examples

  • There are also important neurochemical checks and balances between brain centers that are 'pinged' by interaction with others, such that we derive pleasure and good will from simple exchange of words.

    anodin - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • There are also important neurochemical checks and balances between brain centers that are 'pinged' by interaction with others, such that we derive pleasure and good will from simple exchange of words.

    anodin - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • One possible explanation is that I noticed my website wasn't "pinged" by Technorati in a while since Sept. 2008.

    Short Note On "Top Patent Blogs" Peter Zura 2009

  • In just a few short hours I have created my own edublog, learnt how to hyperlink lots of editing posts however, "pinged" my blog and now I'm discovering how to tag!

    Ten habits of bloggers that win! 2006

  • Weblogs are apparently being "pinged" at random times, thus causing the list to show sites as having updated several times a day, including sadly-missed, and not-updated sites like Grotesque Anatomy.

    Archive 2005-09-18 2005

  • Weblogs are apparently being "pinged" at random times, thus causing the list to show sites as having updated several times a day, including sadly-missed, and not-updated sites like Grotesque Anatomy.

    Archive 2005-09-18 2005

  • The revolver "pinged," there was a flash of light, but the bullet sped past him, and Drake flung himself upon his man.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • I wonder how many times the government’s data-mining-for-tare-ah-ists super computer has keyword pinged on this post and its comments?

    “Some of us have harder heads than others” | clusterflock 2009

  • They 'pinged' the door-bell, and her aunt came running forward out of the kitchen.

    England, My England 1907

  • The Mexicans, to be sure, returned the fire furiously, but their bullets "pinged" harmlessly against the steel shutters, or buried themselves in the thick, wooden walls.

    The Border Boys Across the Frontier John Henry Goldfrap 1898

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