stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch 
: a watch with a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped at will for exact timing (as of a race)
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Chief Keef: Almighty So 2 The stopwatch started on rap’s postmodern era with Chief Keef’s Almighty So, released in late 2013—an obscure-sounding record misconstrued in its own time, whose intuitive style would inform just about every major rap trend in the decade to come.
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Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
When Reba McEntire steps up to the mic on Sunday to unfurl the national anthem, betting fanatics will set their stopwatches to time the duration of her performance.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Feb. 2024
Typically, a surgeon implants the device, roughly the size of a small stopwatch, in the upper left chest and a wire is run under the skin and attached to the vagus nerve.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 16 Dec. 2024
Scouts in attendance shared knowing glances and compared stopwatches.
—Kalyn Kahler, The Athletic, 27 Apr. 2024
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Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
When Reba McEntire steps up to the mic on Sunday to unfurl the national anthem, betting fanatics will set their stopwatches to time the duration of her performance.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Feb. 2024
Typically, a surgeon implants the device, roughly the size of a small stopwatch, in the upper left chest and a wire is run under the skin and attached to the vagus nerve.
—Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 16 Dec. 2024
Scouts in attendance shared knowing glances and compared stopwatches.
—Kalyn Kahler, The Athletic, 27 Apr. 2024
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stopwatch. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.
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stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch
: a watch having a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped for exact timing (as of a race)
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