as in timer
a device to measure time
the clock reads 5:00 p.m.
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as in to knock
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
sick of being insulted, he swung around and clocked his tormentor hard enough to knock him off his bar stool
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Recent Examples of clock
Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
Set clocks back one hour in the early evening on Saturday instead of Sunday.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Alena Botros, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
And when her song 'Champagne Problems' finished, the crowd gave her the longest standing ovation yet, clocking in at 3:40 minutes according to Billboard.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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Van Cleef & Arpels, for instance, infuses its 118 years of jewelry expertise into wildly complicated automaton wristwatches and clocks behind intricate facades.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
Set clocks back one hour in the early evening on Saturday instead of Sunday.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
At American law firms in London, junior lawyers are clocking around twice the number of work hours as the average British employee.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
And when her song 'Champagne Problems' finished, the crowd gave her the longest standing ovation yet, clocking in at 3:40 minutes according to Billboard.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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Patek Philippe divides its current collection into complications (world timers, chronographs, and annual calendars) and grand complications (perpetual calendars, tourbillons, chiming watches, and so on).Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Kitchen Cooking Timer Tomato $9 Amazon Ditch your boring phone timer for something with a lot more personality.Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 1 Nov. 2024
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Donald Trump made his closing pitch to supporters while knocking several of his opponents in his last rally of the presidential election on Monday night.Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Toyota’s Japanese manufacturing plants crank out about 13,500 new vehicles every day—but last year, 14 of them were knocked offline for 24 hours by a single software glitch.Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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How Cells Keep Time When Johnson entered graduate school in the 1970s, scientists knew that circadian clocks — organisms’ internal timekeepers for the day-night cycle — are ubiquitous in multicellular plants and animals.Elizabeth Landau, quantamagazine.org, 11 Oct. 2024
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Like my wife, the world’s timekeepers have been forced to adjust their clocks, adding thirty-seven leap seconds since 1972.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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The driver of the No. 81 team threatened fellow driver Cole Custer and attempted to punch him following last Saturday’s race at Martinsville Speedway.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The lawsuit alleges that Jackson punched Shanquella Robinson in the face, head, neck and other parts of her body.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The museum always had a section dedicated to the Hamilton Watch Company, including pocket watches, wristwatches, chronometers, desk clocks, and the first-ever electric watch.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fit with the caliber 215 PS, a manually wound chronometer with small seconds, the timepiece markes the first time in watchmaking history that C.O.S.C (Switzerland’s official chronometer certification bureau) and the Geneva Seal Authority issued a joint individual rating for a watch.Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2024
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Trump’s talk of slapping 20 percent tariffs onto everything sold to America, including European exports, could spell disaster for Europe’s economy.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s last term saw the Republican slap tariffs on hundreds of billions worth of Chinese goods, launch a campaign against Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and use racist language to describe the virus that causes Covid-19, which was first identified in China.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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The timepiece comes in a 43.3mm titanium case and—esepcially when compared to the rest of the watches in our list—is beautifully simple in all its grandeur!Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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The timepiece is priced at $1,650, the least expensive of this group of watches.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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Last night Prospect Park, smack in the middle of Brooklyn, caught fire.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2024
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Director Bruce Goodison applies the tension well in the first two thirds of this efficient Shudder release, but then the plot smacks into a dead-end in its final act.Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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