alarm clock

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Recent Examples of alarm clock Consider an old-fashioned alarm clock instead of setting an alarm on your phone to reduce the temptation to go online. Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Junior didn’t need an alarm clock as hitter Thursday. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 Plus, some offer handy features like an alarm clock, a calendar app, the ability to answer texts, and so on. Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 31 Mar. 2025 Old Electronics Items like alarm clocks and stereos in working condition are often fair game, but televisions and microwaves, for example, are not. Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for alarm clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
Noun
  • But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There’s the meetings there, there’s the time clocks.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Biden’s decor included a handful of paintings, a grandfather clock and a subtle bit of greenery on the fireplace mantle.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That includes a demonstration of refined maneuvers for free-floating robots, an enhanced air quality monitoring system that could be used for missions to the moon and Mars, and two atomic clocks.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Rubidium is found in the earth’s crust alongside lithium and is used in technologies such as atomic clocks, motion sensors, signal generators, and GPS equipment—technologies that all rely on the hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium atoms to keep time.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Our newest mobile clock generator delivers the precision timing required for advanced connectivity of next-generation mobile devices.
    Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • To complete the looks, a black bowler hat with a clock face monocle attached.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 6 May 2025

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