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  • noun Plural form of ringing.

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Examples

  • In 2010, NYSE Euronext 's New York Stock Exchange hosted 945 events, including bell-ringings, board meetings, formal dinners and cocktail parties — an increase of roughly 20% to 25% from 2009, according to the exchange's managing director of event marketing, Lauren Sorof .

    The Party Index Is Rallying Kristina Peterson 2011

  • Percy wondered, but eventually the stream dribbled off to separate ringings against the porcelain.

    Percy's Night Out 2010

  • Tucker explains to Tyler the premise of "Ding Dong Ditch" and suddenly knockings and doorbell ringings become much more aggressive.

    Afternoon with Tyler and Tucker dudemanflab 2008

  • The wind, of course, is the lack of sound from subseqent ringings.deadsongs. vue.77

    The WELL: Franklin's Tower Robert Hunter 2008

  • Today, Gentle Reader, I must hit more than my word count as I have been very bad this week so I am off to my secret layer where cell phone ringings and Armenian lovers shall not find me.

    1876 Supper gailcarriger 2008

  • Early on, he preferred to stay away from twice-a-day bell ringings on the balcony above the trading floor.

    Merrill Taps NYSE's Thain as CEO 2007

  • But after hundreds of concerts without protection I have multiple ringings in my ears ...

    bass in your face 2007

  • Later he showed up at bell ringings more often, using them as an opportunity to show business leaders in person what actually happens on the trading floor.

    Merrill Taps NYSE's Thain as CEO 2007

  • Worn out from worry and the Governor's late hours, I slept like the dead, through all the thumps and rattlings and bell-ringings of the watch, shouts from boats nearby, occasional musket-fire from the shore, and the whine of the offshore wind as it passed through the rigging.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • The wind, of course, is the lack of sound from subseqent ringings.

    Franklin's Tower Exegesis--Andrew Shalit Andrew Shalit 2005

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