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Recent Examples of clocklike
The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.
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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
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 a loose approximation, aging is clocklike because there’s a progressiveness to it.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
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
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
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
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 a loose approximation, aging is clocklike because there’s a progressiveness to it.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2016
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clocklike
Adjective
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Prices were accurate at the time of publication but may change.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Federal data is fluid and frequently subject to change as more detailed and accurate information becomes available.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The annual revision is a standard BLS procedure that helps correct sampling and modeling errors.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Without the correct attributes — competitiveness, mindset, IQ, internal drive — Donovan fears a young player could flounder in Chicago.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have produced the most precise measurements yet of the solar system’s largest planet, showing that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates suggested.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Advertising in the Super Bowl is usually a play for mass reach, but some marketers are using the spectacle in more precise fashion.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Additionally, in some higher-income districts, many of the highest-achieving students now opt out of the state’s standardized testing altogether, meaning statewide averages increasingly reflect a more skewed testing pool.—
Jill Stegman,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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As global regulations accelerate, Worldly said the PIC can serve as a standardized data foundation to meet emerging legal requirements.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The results point to a future where things like knee braces, exoskeletons, or even joint replacements could be tailored to an individual’s exact joint motion.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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Roberts said crews will be dispatched on Sunday morning to find the exact location and begin repairs.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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By adjusting for variables such as smoking, physical activity and underlying health conditions, the researchers were able to isolate the specific relationship between caffeine intake and long-term brain health, SWNS noted.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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James Reilly, senior markets economist at Capital Economics, said in a note that while the broader stock market continues to climb higher, exposure to AI will be a specific boost or drag for certain companies.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Clocklike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clocklike. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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