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Recent Examples of alarm clock
Select an alarm clock with a light-dimming feature and a battery backup in case of power outages.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 23 Apr. 2026
Buy a tiny folding travel alarm clock.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
Where to Start The simplest move is charging your phone in another room and using a separate alarm clock, which removes the most common excuse for keeping it bedside.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
In 2007, as the 20-year anniversary loomed, an alarm clock went off in my gut.
—Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 23 Apr. 2026
Buy a tiny folding travel alarm clock.
—Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
Where to Start The simplest move is charging your phone in another room and using a separate alarm clock, which removes the most common excuse for keeping it bedside.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
In 2007, as the 20-year anniversary loomed, an alarm clock went off in my gut.
—Kate Crane, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
Noun
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Humphreys and his colleagues have demonstrated how a mock Starlink service can produce navigation and timing solutions with 10-meter-level accuracy if Starlink supplies the real-time clock and orbit corrections—albeit only after a minutes-long processing delay.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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The show originated at a design museum in Saint-Étienne; Musée des Arts et Métiers has supplemented it with lemons from its permanent collection, such as the ten-hour decimal-time clock, used during the French Revolution.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps the notion appealed to nineteenth-century tastes for cuckoo clocks and ideas about mechanistic, orderly nature.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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The bird in question was supposed to be a rooster, but when the clockmaker tested his little leather bellows, the rooster sounded rather anemic, and the cuckoo clock was born.—
Kendra Atleework,
Longreads,
12 Mar. 2026
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Creaky corridors stitch it all together: lined with grandfather clocks, China collections, historic sketches, and French antique mirrors.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2026
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History San Jose has received countless donations over the years, but few have caused so many people to go down research rabbit holes as a grandfather clock recently has.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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To get extremely precise atomic measurements, Raizen proposes an experiment using a laser to cool and trap individual isotopes—variants of atoms—in an extremely precise atomic clock.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
13 May 2026
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Today’s atomic clocks keep time by tracking changes in an atom’s electrons.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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One man’s modernity is, of course, another’s degradation, and, as dinner was served, the conversation turned to such recent innovations as ghost runners, pitch clocks, and robot umps, none of them to Murray’s liking.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The statutory clock continues to run, and waiting can mean losing the refund entirely.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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“Alarm clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarm%20clock. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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