as in to ring
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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Recent Examples of knell
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2020
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Would-be buyers of older setups should know that most consumer electronics from the early solid-state era—the mid-1960s into the ’80s, when transistors appeared to be the death knell for vacuum tubes—sounded awful then and sound even worse today.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Day 18: Hard to focus with all the death knells tolling.
—Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2020
Noun
The death knell, however, might have been the choice of a lead.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Would-be buyers of older setups should know that most consumer electronics from the early solid-state era—the mid-1960s into the ’80s, when transistors appeared to be the death knell for vacuum tubes—sounded awful then and sound even worse today.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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That alone should set the alarm bells ringing as PayPal would obviously not be sending you a critical security notification using a throwaway Gmail address.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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And for one night a week, with the ship bathed in red, that sentiment rings truer than ever.—
Josh Rivera,
USA TODAY,
9 Mar. 2025
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Instead, fans turned the nasty weather into a party, cheering louder at every peal of thunder.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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The heartwarming bond between a toddler and his chocolate Labrador retriever has captured the internet's attention, as the dog's playful antics sent the little boy into peals of laughter.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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What to watch: Key consumer sentiment indicators tell the same story of receding economic confidence.—
Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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This article aims to help business leaders understand what this critical economic indicator means, and the role that policy changes will play in the economic future.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Verb
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So Florida levies tolls more liberally than any other state in America.—
Scott Maxwell,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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In effect for a month, the program, which tolls most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th street, is the first of its kind in the country.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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That was a fantastically exciting ding-dong 2-2 — with Atletico missing a 99th penalty and eventually being eliminated from the Champions League after the group stage.—
Dermot Corrigan,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Not a very productive interrogation … that is until there’s a ding-dong at the door.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2024
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The pullbacks in nonessential areas like restaurants and airline travel signals consumers might be turning their concerns about the economy into tighter budgets.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Mar. 2025
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These three signals work together like the leaves of a shamrock.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Broadcasters are changing their tune while tennis authorities will continue to pursue the next generation of viewers with a product that chimes with their audience’s time.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Its protagonist, who aspires to sleep through a whole year with the help of psychiatric drugs, is patently not a stand-in for the United States, and yet her inner darkness, a source of both animation and rot, chimes with the violence of our national response to 9/11.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2025
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Though this installation of tintinnabulation has been a feature of the garden for more than a decade, some frequent visitors only noticed the chimes this summer, when a small crew recently installed them in a large linden tree adjacent to Parade Stadium.—
Kim Hyatt,
Star Tribune,
23 July 2021
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
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“Knell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knell. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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