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Recent Examples of alarm clock
Looming over camp, Black Brushy Mountain was outlined by the early morning glow when the alarm clock rattled me from a sound sleep.
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Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Some headboards have storage shelves for items such as books, reading lamps or alarm clocks.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2025
Ignoring your alarm clock will become a daily happening bordering on the opulent.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2025
Parents ready to ban phones from the bedroom would do well to first invest in an old-fashioned alarm clock or radio to make sure their kids don’t miss those functions on their phone.
—Rheana Murray, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
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Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Some headboards have storage shelves for items such as books, reading lamps or alarm clocks.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2025
Ignoring your alarm clock will become a daily happening bordering on the opulent.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2025
Parents ready to ban phones from the bedroom would do well to first invest in an old-fashioned alarm clock or radio to make sure their kids don’t miss those functions on their phone.
—Rheana Murray, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for alarm clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
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The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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That includes a large antique cuckoo clock, chandeliers, decorative shields, and a mural depicting a city in Germany.—
Tom Daykin,
jsonline.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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The skeleton that pops out from behind the grandfather clock was the best gag of the night.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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If a bunch of grandfather clocks are put in room together, for example, the biggest amplitude signal will entrain the others.—
Ginny Whitelaw,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Weiss developed a precise atomic clock, and was also a pioneer in the measurement of a cosmic fossil called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), leftover radiation from an event just after the Big Bang.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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But scientists who track and operate atomic clocks may be facing a bit of a predicament.—
James Powel,
Freep.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Rather, signals the brain's circadian clock to prepare for sleep.—
Stephanie Brown,
Verywell Health,
26 Sep. 2025
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The Golden Eagles enacted a running clock for the second straight game against the outmatched Blazers.—
Matt Schubert,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Alarm clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarm%20clock. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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