as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
The miniature grandfather clock never ticked in Greg Allison’s childhood.
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Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
One, however, was missing: a miniature grandfather clock.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
While waiting for the maître d’, a customer could step on an antique scale the size of a grandfather clock.
—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
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Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
One, however, was missing: a miniature grandfather clock.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
While waiting for the maître d’, a customer could step on an antique scale the size of a grandfather clock.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
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It can be turned into a bedside alarm clock and a daily planner, sounding alerts for programmed meetings, tasks and appointments.New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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The answer is room service and a retro alarm clock.Matthew Medendorp, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 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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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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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 Dec. 2024.
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