as in timer
a device to measure time
the clock reads 5:00 p.m.
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as in to knock
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
sick of being insulted, he swung around and clocked his tormentor hard enough to knock him off his bar stool
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Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
The dark cabinets and trim were painted white (along with the backsplash), the wallpaper was removed and painted a beautiful beige, and the oven was cut out and replaced with a fresh, stainless steel oven with modern nobs (and a digital clock, thank goodness).
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Armentrout’s novels From Blood and Ash and A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire broke the top 5 list, clocking in at 8 hours and 10 hours, respectively.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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The Chargers get a field goal and chew up nearly 10 minutes of clock.
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2024
The dark cabinets and trim were painted white (along with the backsplash), the wallpaper was removed and painted a beautiful beige, and the oven was cut out and replaced with a fresh, stainless steel oven with modern nobs (and a digital clock, thank goodness).
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
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Her fourth installment in the series A Court of Frost and Starlight, took second place in the fastest reads category, clocking in at 4 hours in order to get through about 60,000 words.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Armentrout’s novels From Blood and Ash and A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire broke the top 5 list, clocking in at 8 hours and 10 hours, respectively.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
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Patek Philippe divides its current collection into complications (world timers, chronographs, and annual calendars) and grand complications (perpetual calendars, tourbillons, chiming watches, and so on).Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Kitchen Cooking Timer Tomato $9 Amazon Ditch your boring phone timer for something with a lot more personality.Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 1 Nov. 2024
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Toyota’s Japanese manufacturing plants crank out about 13,500 new vehicles every day—but last year, 14 of them were knocked offline for 24 hours by a single software glitch.Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Both campaigns have been trying to finish strong with turnout operations and door knocking right up until the polls close.Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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How Cells Keep Time When Johnson entered graduate school in the 1970s, scientists knew that circadian clocks — organisms’ internal timekeepers for the day-night cycle — are ubiquitous in multicellular plants and animals.Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
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Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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The driver of the No. 81 team threatened fellow driver Cole Custer and attempted to punch him following last Saturday’s race at Martinsville Speedway.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The lawsuit alleges that Jackson punched Shanquella Robinson in the face, head, neck and other parts of her body.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The museum always had a section dedicated to the Hamilton Watch Company, including pocket watches, wristwatches, chronometers, desk clocks, and the first-ever electric watch.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fit with the caliber 215 PS, a manually wound chronometer with small seconds, the timepiece markes the first time in watchmaking history that C.O.S.C (Switzerland’s official chronometer certification bureau) and the Geneva Seal Authority issued a joint individual rating for a watch.Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2024
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Trump’s talk of slapping 20 percent tariffs onto everything sold to America, including European exports, could spell disaster for Europe’s economy.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s last term saw the Republican slap tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods, launch a campaign against Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and use racist language to describe the virus that causes Covid-19, which was first identified in China.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Exports of Swiss timepieces and watch movements declined by 12.4% overall to about 1.9 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) in value, with China’s imports down 50%, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said in a statement Thursday.Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 17 Oct. 2024
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One bright spot was the U.S., which grew a modest 2.4 percent but consolidated its position as the leading market for Swiss timepieces.Lily Templeton, WWD, 17 Oct. 2024
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Last night Prospect Park, smack in the middle of Brooklyn, caught fire.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2024
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Director Bruce Goodison applies the tension well in the first two thirds of this efficient Shudder release, but then the plot smacks into a dead-end in its final act.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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