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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.
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Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2024
The public is offered a timeline of events, a preliminary ticktock, not of why the mayhem unfolded but of how it was put down.
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Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
7 June 2022
Back, forth, 1 o’clock, 10 o’clock, ticktock, like a poem with iambic meter.
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Patrick Mooney,
The Christian Science Monitor,
1 June 2022
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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
The public is offered a timeline of events, a preliminary ticktock, not of why the mayhem unfolded but of how it was put down.
—
Robin Givhan,
Washington Post,
7 June 2022
Back, forth, 1 o’clock, 10 o’clock, ticktock, like a poem with iambic meter.
—
Patrick Mooney,
The Christian Science Monitor,
1 June 2022
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“Ticktock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ticktock. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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ticktock
noun
tick·tock
ˈtik-ˈtäk 
-ˌtäk
: the ticking sound of a clock
Etymology
imitative
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