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Thinking How religion turned American politics into a bizarre anti-science spectacle
The countdown continues!
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
The moment the halving is completed, the countdown will begin until smaller miners unable to optimize their mining activities are forced out of mining altogether.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
The Type 20 and Type 21 chronographs, which were issued to French forces, made use of this wildly practical system, most probably as a type of crude countdown device.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
Instead of focusing on the countdown to his death, the Doctor uses his screwdriver to ruin Rogue’s stoic facade by exposing him as a DnD player who apparently likes to jam out to Kylie Minogue.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
The moment the halving is completed, the countdown will begin until smaller miners unable to optimize their mining activities are forced out of mining altogether.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
The Type 20 and Type 21 chronographs, which were issued to French forces, made use of this wildly practical system, most probably as a type of crude countdown device.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
Instead of focusing on the countdown to his death, the Doctor uses his screwdriver to ruin Rogue’s stoic facade by exposing him as a DnD player who apparently likes to jam out to Kylie Minogue.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 June 2024
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“Countdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/countdown. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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countdown
noun
count·down
ˈkau̇nt-ˌdau̇n 
: the process of counting off backward in fixed units (as seconds) the time remaining before an event (as the launching of a rocket)
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