as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of time clock
Generally speaking, the twice-a-year daylight saving time clock changes are unpopular.
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
The scoreboards went out, the time clocks were stopped and play was halted on all four sheets.
—Zack Pierce, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Case dismissed — and then reinstated Madison Equities then convinced the district court that under the rules of civil procedure, the time clock on the two-year statute of limitations began in late 2019 at the latest, not late 2021, and the case should be dismissed for lack of timeliness.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026
Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2025
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Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
The scoreboards went out, the time clocks were stopped and play was halted on all four sheets.
—Zack Pierce, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Case dismissed — and then reinstated Madison Equities then convinced the district court that under the rules of civil procedure, the time clock on the two-year statute of limitations began in late 2019 at the latest, not late 2021, and the case should be dismissed for lack of timeliness.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026
Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time clock
Noun
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The sunrise alarm clock also has a convenient sunset mode and five nature sounds.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
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Even within the walls of the apartment, there was the hum of the refrigerator, the soft ticking of a radio alarm clock and the clock in the VCR, the submarine tlack of the cassette reversing in the answering machine, and other little noises.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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The place is full of antiques such as old cuckoo clocks, paintings, and books.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
6 May 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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“Time clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20clock. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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