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Recent Examples of alarm clock
An uncertain forecast didn't stop the glee, for many, of a winter morning, with social media showing many area residents setting the alarm clock for the early morning hours to experience the snow fall.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
Even small acts like buying a physical alarm clock can feel liberating.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
Shop the alarm clock today for a better sleep this year, and keep scrolling for more options at Wayfair below.
—Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
The sounds of birds singing in the morning might serve as your unofficial (and sometimes unwelcome) alarm clock.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 31 Dec. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
Even small acts like buying a physical alarm clock can feel liberating.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
Shop the alarm clock today for a better sleep this year, and keep scrolling for more options at Wayfair below.
—Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
The sounds of birds singing in the morning might serve as your unofficial (and sometimes unwelcome) alarm clock.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 31 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
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Case dismissed — and then reinstated Madison Equities then convinced the district court that under the rules of civil procedure, the time clock on the two-year statute of limitations began in late 2019 at the latest, not late 2021, and the case should be dismissed for lack of timeliness.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
27 Dec. 2025
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Other decorations included a popcorn bucket, a hamburger, a hot dog cart, a cuckoo clock and a rocking horse.—
Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
30 Dec. 2025
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While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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The Sand Pirates pirate ship silently swung like the pendulum on a grandfather clock.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Dec. 2025
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At the public library that’s named for Howard Miller, two majestic grandfather clocks stand watch.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
1 Dec. 2025
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon, disrupting the agency’s atomic clock, spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025
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All of the atomic clocks continued ticking through the power outage last week thanks to their battery backup systems, according to NIST supervisory research physicist Jeff Sherman.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
21 Dec. 2025
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But for months, in a practice first disclosed by the Orlando Sentinel, ICE has picked up its detainees at the jail and brought them back hours later, restarting the 72-hour clock.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
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His original sketches and the finished product—which opens and closes like a vintage sliding travel clock—are remarkably similar.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Alarm clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarm%20clock. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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