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Noting changes in extremely recognisable call signal (8)

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ringtone

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'call signal' is the definition.
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'noting changes in extremely recognisable' is the wordplay.
'changes' indicates an anagram.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'extremely' suggests removing the centre (only the extremes of the word are used).
'recognisable' with its centre removed is 're'.
'noting' is an anagram of 'ington'.
'ington' inserted inside 're' is 'RINGTONE'.

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(Other definitions for ringtone that I've seen before include "Sound coming from mobile" , "Sound made by a mobile phone" , "Sound of modern life" , "Sound of a phone on an incoming call" , "Nitrogen (anag.)" .)

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