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According to the amendment, which is available to read in full on the National Archives website, the president-elect officially becomes the sitting president at the stroke of noon on Jan. 20.
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Right at the stroke of midnight Wednesday he was born at AdventHealth Waterman hospital in Tavares — becoming one of the first Central Florida babies of 2025.
—Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
Some believe that locking lips at the stroke of midnight can strengthen an already-existing relationship and offer good luck, and that a lack of someone to do it with means an upcoming year of loneliness.
—Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
Such nightmarish fantasies were never truly based in reality, but the public genuinely feared that the computer systems society had become increasingly reliant on would fail at the stroke of midnight, ushering in a dark beginning to the year 2000.
—Sean Rameswaram, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Right at the stroke of midnight Wednesday he was born at AdventHealth Waterman hospital in Tavares — becoming one of the first Central Florida babies of 2025.
—Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
Some believe that locking lips at the stroke of midnight can strengthen an already-existing relationship and offer good luck, and that a lack of someone to do it with means an upcoming year of loneliness.
—Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2024
Such nightmarish fantasies were never truly based in reality, but the public genuinely feared that the computer systems society had become increasingly reliant on would fail at the stroke of midnight, ushering in a dark beginning to the year 2000.
—Sean Rameswaram, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“At the stroke of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20stroke%20of. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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