Alex Bregman

If someone's going to throw me in, I'm not gong to try and hit a ground ball to third, you know? I'm going to try and hit it in the air. If someone's going to throw me away, I'm not going to try and hit a ground ball to second, I'm going to drive it to right-center.

American Athlete

Scott Tolzien

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

Jamie Parker

In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.

English Actor

Michael Ignatieff

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Canadian Politician

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

French Philosopher

Jack Dempsey

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

American Boxer

Rudy Boesch

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.

American Soldier

Sheryl Sandberg

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

American Businesswoman

Hailee Steinfeld

I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

American Actress

Liu Yifei

Chinese Actress

Gongs are often used in ceremonies to grab attention with their deep, resounding tone.

Ceremony sound

In historical contexts, gongs were symbols of status and power, used by royalty or in temples.

Symbol of power

Gongs can be used to signal the start of an event or to alert people to important announcements.

Alerts and announcements

A 'gong' can refer to a specific kind of accolade in the UK, such as an order of knighthood.

Unique accolade

When used for awards, 'gong' suggests formal and significant recognition of someone's achievements.

Formal recognition

In casual language, 'gong' is a playful or informal way to talk about awards. It's less formal than 'prize' or 'trophy'.

Colloquial use

As a verb, 'gong' is often used to indicate the announcement of an event like a meeting or mealtime.

Announcing events

The action of 'gonging' specifically refers to producing the sound made by the instrument.

Action sound

Using 'gong' as a verb can add a sense of drama or urgency to an announcement.

Dramatic effect

 trail of all my gear that had been falling off bit by bit and at the very tail end of that there was a gong knock he'd lost one pack box the other one would swung around under his tummy he couldn't move forward or back the officer walked up with his great big machine gun over his shoulder and planted a kiss on login' Hawks nose but

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 by the gamers themselves. They found clever ways to trade items and to sell their accounts to each other so that they could make money while they were playing their games. I dove onto eBay a couple of days ago just to see what was gong on, typed in World of Warcraft, got 6,000 items. I liked this one the

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 There were eight categories. And so surprised, in fact, having looked at the list of people we were up against, I didn't even turn up to the awards ceremony. So Scott collected the gong by himself. And then we traveled off to the national awards. I thought I should probably turn up to those.

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 which embraces responsibility and understands that we have to play our part in the communities in which we operate. We introduced something called The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, which said, "Our purpose is to make sustainable living commonplace, and we are gong to change the lives

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 to select for cosmetic changes that aren't related to health. Then we asked everyone to gather into groups of three. And they were given two minutes to debate and try to come to a consensus. Two minutes to debate. I'll tell you when it's time with the gong.

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 Especially trafficking survivors. These people were the most resourceful and resilient and responsible in their communities. They were the people that you would take a gamble on. You'd say, I'm gong to sell my rings, because I have the chance

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 Castles ejected waste from tall windows into communal cesspits. At night, so-called gong farmers would load up the waste before traveling beyond city limits to dump their cargo. Europe's unsanitary approach persisted for centuries,

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 all this technical stuff which is musical chairs here's a chair that is the energy trap I'm talking about and you are a little droplet a little bit of matter you just sit there when the gong goes tick-tock it's time to flip in a

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 you put walnuts girl remember you can use more about Jack Black and confu and National Geographic Kids magazine I'm Rachel Buchholz reminding you to keep on exploring your world okay you can stop banging the gong now jack

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 soon a dancer wearing a headdress of hornbill feathers emerged from beneath the longhouse and began to prance and posture to the music of the drums and gongs which came echoing from the long house