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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock
Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door.
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Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
As Orson Welles reminds Joseph Cotten in The Third Man (1949), unsettling times can nurture artistic renaissances while serene prosperity yields only the cuckoo clock.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
Audrey Hall The living room is a prime example of the antique-modern balance with a custom rug, a bronze and antique family chair that was recovered in a contemporary fabric, and an ornate heirloom cuckoo clock.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
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Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
As Orson Welles reminds Joseph Cotten in The Third Man (1949), unsettling times can nurture artistic renaissances while serene prosperity yields only the cuckoo clock.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
Audrey Hall The living room is a prime example of the antique-modern balance with a custom rug, a bronze and antique family chair that was recovered in a contemporary fabric, and an ornate heirloom cuckoo clock.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
Noun
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Set your alarm clocks: the newest series of Drive to Survive is arriving March 7.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Feb. 2025
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Old Electronics Items like alarm clocks and stereos in working condition are often fair game, but televisions and microwaves, for example, are not.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Those in favor of seasonal time clock changes cite children walking to school in the dark with daylight saving time used in the winter.—
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
Boston Herald,
30 Oct. 2024
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So, if grad school and work have you at capacity, don’t worry about anyone else’s time clock for love or anything else.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2024
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The grandfather clocks continue to be made and are sought after items from vintage collectors and interior designers.—
Bruce Martin,
Forbes,
4 Nov. 2024
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There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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However, compared to a quantum clock, atomic clocks are as accurate as a one-dollar antique pocket watch that's been whacked several times with a coal hammer.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2025
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At their core, atomic clocks and nuclear clocks work using the same principle.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2024
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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