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Recent Examples of alarm clock
And for adults, what a great chance to get an alarm clock.
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Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2025
Stories of haughty people scheming and plucky servants improving alarm clocks attract smaller audiences than, say, trench warfare.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
But when the body faces a respiratory virus like influenza or SARS-CoV-2, the resulting inflammation (both locally in the lungs and systemically throughout the body) acts like an alarm clock.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025
Shop her top four picks, including a sleep-improving alarm clock and trendy ankle weights ideal for at-home workouts and walks to class.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 10 July 2025
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Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2025
Stories of haughty people scheming and plucky servants improving alarm clocks attract smaller audiences than, say, trench warfare.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
But when the body faces a respiratory virus like influenza or SARS-CoV-2, the resulting inflammation (both locally in the lungs and systemically throughout the body) acts like an alarm clock.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2025
Shop her top four picks, including a sleep-improving alarm clock and trendy ankle weights ideal for at-home workouts and walks to class.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 10 July 2025
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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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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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In April during Milan Design Week, the brand unveiled the temporary Ephemeral Store on Via Montenapoleone, with cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance and the womenswear collection displayed in a room that is a replica of the Hall of Mirrors in the royal Palace of Versailles.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
21 July 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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In one of the spy spoof’s great running gags, his resentful Agent 13 would pop up in mailboxes, grandfather clocks, fire hydrants, planters, etc. while on uncomfortable undercover assignments.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 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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Participants’ weight, waist size, and body mass index (BMI) were tracked, along with their performance on tests of memory, orientation (for example, knowing the date and who the president is), and executive function (such as drawing a clock face).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Sep. 2025
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After this fall’s change, the next national clock shift is scheduled for Sunday, March 8, 2026, when DST returns on the second Sunday in March.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Alarm clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarm%20clock. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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