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toll

noun as in damage, deaths

verb as in ring out

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The mood among German consumers continues to darken as the pressures besetting Europe’s largest economy take their toll on sentiment.

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A sluggish Kentucky bourbon market is taking its toll on distilleries, derailing a turnaround plan for one spirits maker and driving others to bankruptcy.

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The toll of the war and Western sanctions have made extracting oil out of Russia’s already shrinking reservoirs harder.

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The human toll of the war, and Israel’s defiant response to international criticism, has turned some of its traditional Western allies against it.

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The 51-year-old president disputed on Thursday a UN toll issued on September 29 that at least 22 people had been killed in the first days of the protest movement.

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