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verb

present tense third-person singular of knell
as in rings
to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates the church bells knelled to mark the death of the nation's beloved leader

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noun

plural of knell
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as in chimes

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as in indicators

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  1. rings
  2. chimes
  3. indicators
  4. clangs
  5. signs
  6. rattles
  7. signals
  8. tinkles
Verb
  • The blast rings out as the helpless attorney watches in horror.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
  • Recounting her boyfriend calling the police on her during their fraught break-up, the chorus rings out over rowdy snares like a brutal playground taunt.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
Definition of rings
Noun
  • Skip fake florals, door bows, and chimes, which can look cheap or annoy neighbors.
    — Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 23 June 2026
  • As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026
Definition of chimes
Noun
  • Together, the capex commitments, power demand projections, physical bottlenecks, and input price inflation are the indicators of the installation phase.
    — Nili Gilbert, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Moving envelope indicators and Bollinger Bands show long positions struggling, while the MACD, RSI, and major long-term moving averages display explicitly bearish momentum profiles.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 July 2026
Definition of indicators
Noun
  • The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
  • The album’s official versions smooth out some of the buzzy sibilance of the bootlegs, but Hold Onto Me Infinity accommodates lots of tasteful clangs and wubs.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026
Definition of clangs
Noun
  • Most dramatically, five of the bodies were hung on a highway bridge, their half-nude corpses displaying signs of torture — a macabre display that recalled the worst days of the Mexican drug wars.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
  • Institutions and governments must invest long before crises unfold and continue funding past initial signs of success to ensure complete and lasting transformation.
    — Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of signs
Noun
  • Drummer Jay Russell kept to stark rattles, Sam Shipstone patched in his scratchy electric guitar, and Ryan Needham needled through grumbling basslines.
    — Victoria Borlando, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
  • Jigs with rattles are most productive and a big, active trailer is the way to go in muddy water.
    — David A. Brown, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
Definition of rattles
Noun
  • Problems arise when people assume those same signals mean the same thing everywhere.
    — Deidre Popovich, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • Optasia runs roughly tens of millions of daily credit decisions through a stack of 200-plus machine-learning models that draw on thousands of alternative signals per user.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of signals
Noun
  • Periodically a mandolin tinkles, or maybe a fiddle swoops in as if from a low-hanging cloud.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Roberts doesn’t offer much empathy for the poor, diseased critter other than a pause when Ben momentarily ponders his reflection in a pool as Adrian Johnston’s eerie synth-piano score tinkles.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Definition of tinkles
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