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Recent Examples of alarm clock
If so, the alarm clock is ringing.
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
Smart features Your alarm clock doesn’t have to skimp on modern features.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
Not peckish, not in need of a little boost—hungry, immediately and completely, hunger as urgent as any alarm clock.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Waking up and staying awake is the hardest part of the day for many, but this alarm clock can make the whole process much smoother.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
Smart features Your alarm clock doesn’t have to skimp on modern features.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
Not peckish, not in need of a little boost—hungry, immediately and completely, hunger as urgent as any alarm clock.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Waking up and staying awake is the hardest part of the day for many, but this alarm clock can make the whole process much smoother.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
Noun
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Humphreys and his colleagues have demonstrated how a mock Starlink service can produce navigation and timing solutions with 10-meter-level accuracy if Starlink supplies the real-time clock and orbit corrections—albeit only after a minutes-long processing delay.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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The show originated at a design museum in Saint-Étienne; Musée des Arts et Métiers has supplemented it with lemons from its permanent collection, such as the ten-hour decimal-time clock, used during the French Revolution.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The place is full of antiques such as old cuckoo clocks, paintings, and books.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
6 May 2026
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Perhaps the notion appealed to nineteenth-century tastes for cuckoo clocks and ideas about mechanistic, orderly nature.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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Creaky corridors stitch it all together: lined with grandfather clocks, China collections, historic sketches, and French antique mirrors.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2026
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History San Jose has received countless donations over the years, but few have caused so many people to go down research rabbit holes as a grandfather clock recently has.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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To get extremely precise atomic measurements, Raizen proposes an experiment using a laser to cool and trap individual isotopes—variants of atoms—in an extremely precise atomic clock.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
13 May 2026
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Today’s atomic clocks keep time by tracking changes in an atom’s electrons.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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My Roald Dahl is a broken clock who is correct twice a day.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
8 June 2026
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After hours of patient work together, the hands of her clock moved.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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“Alarm clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarm%20clock. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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