stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch 
: a watch with a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped at will for exact timing (as of a race)
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Righetti, who is in uniform with his trusty stopwatch while serving as a guest instructor this spring, understands better than most what traits are required to get to 300 wins.
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Tomato slices and lettuce leaves sat on a scale, which weighed food to the nearest tenth of a gram; a large stopwatch, for keeping track of cooking times, ticked nearby.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Behind an ordinary-seeming door may reside Ernst Lubitsch’s Academy Award, Fred Zinnemann’s vacation photos, or Max Reinhardt’s stopwatch.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
My name was called about 6 minutes 30 seconds after Julie turned on the stopwatch function on her cellphone.
—James Barron, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Tomato slices and lettuce leaves sat on a scale, which weighed food to the nearest tenth of a gram; a large stopwatch, for keeping track of cooking times, ticked nearby.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Behind an ordinary-seeming door may reside Ernst Lubitsch’s Academy Award, Fred Zinnemann’s vacation photos, or Max Reinhardt’s stopwatch.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
My name was called about 6 minutes 30 seconds after Julie turned on the stopwatch function on her cellphone.
—James Barron, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stopwatch. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch
: a watch having a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped for exact timing (as of a race)
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