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Recent Examples of clocklike
As a loose approximation, aging is clocklike because there’s a progressiveness to it.
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Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.
—Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
While each change may be novel, major life transitions happen with clocklike regularity.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2020
Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion.
—Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016
The radio emissions themselves, Dr. Chatterjee said, resemble the blasts from pulsars — the spinning neutron stars that emit clocklike pulses of radiation and whose discovery in 1968 did indeed elicit speculation about little green men.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself.
—Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2016
Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.
—Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
While each change may be novel, major life transitions happen with clocklike regularity.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2020
Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion.
—Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016
The radio emissions themselves, Dr. Chatterjee said, resemble the blasts from pulsars — the spinning neutron stars that emit clocklike pulses of radiation and whose discovery in 1968 did indeed elicit speculation about little green men.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
As its inflating interior forms a new universe, its energy incrementally ticks down in clocklike fashion each time the expanding circle winds around the cylinder’s circumference and overlaps itself.
—Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clocklike
Adjective
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Reports that Rihanna would be in attendance for her partner, A$AP Rocky’s, criminal trial have proven themselves accurate, as court reporter Meghann Cuniff has revealed that the singer is, indeed, in the courtroom gallery, seated beside family members.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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While the eruption poses no danger to humans, an accurate prediction could put researchers closer to accurately being able to forecast volcanic eruptions, according to researchers.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
29 Jan. 2025
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But the Alonso saga is about to end — at least if a prediction by popular New York radio host and former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason is correct.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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What is the correct response that doesn’t leave me waving to them from the other side of the TSA line?—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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There were multiple fatalities, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the precise number of victims was unclear as rescue crews hunted for any survivors.—
LOLITA C. BALDOR,
TIME,
30 Jan. 2025
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Few collegiate athletes live up to their name like Emanuel Sharp, who’s been precise on his treys at a 46 percent clip.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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Yes, large language models have already outperformed some humans in standardized tests for medical and law schools.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
30 Jan. 2025
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The big picture: Oregon fourth graders, who took the standardized tests in early 2024, ranked second-worst in the country for math and tied with 10 other states for third-worst for reading.—
Meira Gebel,
Axios,
30 Jan. 2025
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The exact cause of the fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 homes and businesses, remains under investigation, and a final determination could take many months.—
Ivan Penn,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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The exact cause is unknown, but it is believed to result from dysfunction in the basal ganglia, a part of the brain that controls movement.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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The company did not publicly release a specific reason for the closure.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
3 Feb. 2025
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The official did not provide specific benchmarks that could be met to lift the new tariffs, saying only that the best measure would be fewer Americans dying from fentanyl addiction.—
Christopher Sherman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Clocklike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clocklike. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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