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Threes Platforms: mobile, PC, Xbox, Web The king of idle time killers, Threes is one of the few remaining reasons for not throwing your smartphone into the ocean.
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Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Pretty soon, America’s ultimate time killer could be killed itself — or, at the very least, restricted from U.S. borders.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Even though Simone Biles was sitting out today, Hoda Kotb and Snoop Dogg chatted with the gymnast’s family in what was a network time killer by any other name.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 July 2024
The time killer of choice, as always with the Cats on a flight, will be poker.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024
The May 4 incident was the third time killer whales (Orcinus orca) have sunk a vessel off the coasts of Portugal and Spain in the past three years.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
That’s a time killer.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2020
The album is a cornucopia of oddball earworms, but look alive at 1:35 into this track, when the quartet unveils a devilishly righteous stop-time killer that turns into a punishing groove once the full band kicks in.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
Gary Troutman, a two-time killer who knew Angela from the neighborhood, made sure of that.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
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Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Pretty soon, America’s ultimate time killer could be killed itself — or, at the very least, restricted from U.S. borders.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Even though Simone Biles was sitting out today, Hoda Kotb and Snoop Dogg chatted with the gymnast’s family in what was a network time killer by any other name.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 26 July 2024
The time killer of choice, as always with the Cats on a flight, will be poker.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 11 June 2024
The May 4 incident was the third time killer whales (Orcinus orca) have sunk a vessel off the coasts of Portugal and Spain in the past three years.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
That’s a time killer.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2020
The album is a cornucopia of oddball earworms, but look alive at 1:35 into this track, when the quartet unveils a devilishly righteous stop-time killer that turns into a punishing groove once the full band kicks in.
—Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2023
Gary Troutman, a two-time killer who knew Angela from the neighborhood, made sure of that.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
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“Time killer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20killer. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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