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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Just grab some stopwatches and wait for Friday afternoon’s final air horn.
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Both were timed, with stopwatches, at 10.38 seconds, but a series of split-second images showed Tolan crossed the line first.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
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.
—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
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Both were timed, with stopwatches, at 10.38 seconds, but a series of split-second images showed Tolan crossed the line first.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
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.
—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
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stopwatch. Accessed 20 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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