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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clock-watcher
Noun
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Her motifs—flags, dominoes, seashells, snails, moons, eggs, owls—only heighten the otherworldliness.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025 -
Related species are already being studied for pain treatments, so these venomous snails could also hold some medical potential.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Mar. 2025
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Other single-carded figures include block figures of Steve’s dog Dennis, a skeleton warrior and a creeper.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In the end, the society that's formed on Niflheim opts to not only live in peaceful concert with the creepers, but also to demolish the technology that allowed for Mickey to become an expendable in the first place.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Charismatic slacker Raj and uptight striver Mir aren’t just foils for each other; their mutual love is unmistakable, which gives weight to the looming prospect that the stress of salvaging Baba’s empire could tear them apart.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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When Alyssa's slacker boyfriend steals their rent money, the girls race against the clock to get the funds back to avoid eviction from their dubious landlord, embarking on a series of chaotic escapades across Los Angeles.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Teams that pushed boundaries more than two decades ago would be considered laggards today.—
Christian Clark,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Yet, without embracing the risk of failure, companies risk becoming laggards in a fast-pacing market.—
Jessica Mendoza,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The oil will smother active and recently settled crawlers.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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Performance still matters, whether for human visitors or AI crawlers.—
Mehdi Daoudi,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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