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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
Hager likes to style grandfather clocks in foyers and hallways.
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Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The miniature grandfather clock never ticked in Greg Allison’s childhood.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The miniature grandfather clock never ticked in Greg Allison’s childhood.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
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Their day starts, as always, with an alarm clock that activates a Rube Goldberg-like machine.Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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Entertainment & Arts Princess Zelda is the year’s most butt-kicking childless cat lady Oct. 1, 2024 Opinions from sleep experts vary on the use of alarm clocks.Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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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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But barring those machines, checking your watch now and again for precision against an atomic clock is a window into its invisible world.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 2 Jan. 2025
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The ball was lowered by hand until the mid-1990s; now it is timed electronically using an atomic clock based in Colorado (but New York City's mayor and other special guests still get the honor of pushing the ceremonial button).Rachel Treisman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Grandfather clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather%20clock. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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