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doorbell

[dawr-bel, dohr-] / ˈdɔrˌbɛl, ˈdoʊr- /
NOUN
chime
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK


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Flock also lost a deal with Ring after a Super Bowl commercial for Amazon’s smart doorbell company wound up sparking fears of a “surveillance nightmare.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

New York Times reporter Julian E. Barnes was watching “The Sheep Detectives” with his family one recent Friday night when two federal agents rang his doorbell.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The doorbell went again and a walking sculpture dressed in an Anne Boleyn-style quilted dress with beaded face mask appeared.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

With Guthrie missing, the FBI extracted and released doorbell camera images of an armed and masked man outside her home on the morning of her disappearance.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Grandma wakes up when the doorbell rings, and she goes to greet Mom.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp wants to make it a requirement for officers to run images of suspects through facial recognition software, where they have been captured on CCTV, mobile phones or camera doorbells.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Smart-home technology, including security doorbells and fall-detection sensors, can make homes safer, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

"Ringing doorbells, knocking on doors, alerting the neighbours, telling them to leave -- that's what the situation was like," he said.

From Barron's Nov. 27, 2025

Since then, neighborhood groups in New Jersey have organized “sky watches” to track the invading swarms and traded reports via their Ring doorbells.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2024

Before he reached the end of the chapter the doorbells were ringing, both the shop bell on the street and the family bell in the alley.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom



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