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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
While waiting for the maître d’, a customer could step on an antique scale the size of a grandfather clock.
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Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Martinsville gives grandfather clocks to its NASCAR Cup winners.
—Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
From a snowman on skis to a grandfather clock that feels stolen from a scene in The Nutcracker, anyone will enjoy building miniature worlds that match the festivities happening around them.
—Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
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Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Martinsville gives grandfather clocks to its NASCAR Cup winners.
—Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
From a snowman on skis to a grandfather clock that feels stolen from a scene in The Nutcracker, anyone will enjoy building miniature worlds that match the festivities happening around them.
—Melissa Epifano, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2023
The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
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The Yoto also doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, night-light, sleep trainer, room thermometer, and alarm clock.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
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The magician made coins, alarm clocks and even a woman disappear despite battling a 104-degree fever and severe abdominal pain.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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At its center are atomic clocks, which measure the passage of time by tracking the quantum transitions of electrons.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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Projects have been proposed to use an orbital constellation of optical atomic clocks to support the search for dark matter and dark energy, detect low-frequency gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy and probe the fundamental limits of general relativity.Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 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 22 Nov. 2024.
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