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Recalled expression of surprise with church having acoustic feature (4)

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I believe the answer is:

echo

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'acoustic feature' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'recalled expression of surprise with church' is the wordplay.
'recalled' is a reversal indicator.
'expression of surprise' becomes 'oh'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'oh'+'ce'='ohce'
'ohce' reversed gives 'ECHO'.

'having' is the link.

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(Other definitions for echo that I've seen before include "Reflected sound" , "Sound bouncing back" , "Repetition of sound" , "Send back" , "copy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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