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Genes change over time, and the ticktock of random but inevitable mutations can serve as a kind of molecular clock.
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Jonathan Lambert, Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
At first, the hundred metronomes generate a uniform cloud of indistinguishable ticktocks.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Climate change registered to snow hydrologists as a future problem, but for the most part their job remained squarely hydrology: working out the ticktock of a highly variable yet presumably coherent water cycle.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2024
Well, that's a great ticktock, Rikki, of what to expect.
—CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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Jonathan Lambert, Quanta Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
At first, the hundred metronomes generate a uniform cloud of indistinguishable ticktocks.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Climate change registered to snow hydrologists as a future problem, but for the most part their job remained squarely hydrology: working out the ticktock of a highly variable yet presumably coherent water cycle.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2024
Well, that's a great ticktock, Rikki, of what to expect.
—CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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“Ticktock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ticktock. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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ticktock
noun
tick·tock
ˈtik-ˈtäk 
-ˌtäk
: the ticking sound of a clock
Etymology
imitative
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