alarm clock

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Recent Examples of alarm clock Some bedside storage also offers a useful platform for a laptop, alarm clock, or whatever else. Adam Williams may 30, New Atlas, 30 May 2025 And, as the continuing storyline of van Rhijn/Brook Forte house footman Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers) and his patented alarm clock that his new business partner Larry hopes to sell, illustrates, men have additional outlets for economic elevation. Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025 Like, say, the bell of the downstairs’ ball, Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers), and his ringing achievement in alarm clocks. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025 Other crucial plot developments have involved the reveal that a French chef wasn’t actually French, a plucky servant’s attempts to patent an alarm clock, and Agnes’s dramatic decision to cross the street in order to speak to the Russells in person. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for alarm clock
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Noun
  • 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
  • But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The towering grandfather clock in the foyer of Paul and Susan Monreal’s soon-to-be former home is far more than a conversation piece.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • The ticking of a grandfather clock in the White House's Map Room, where the interview took place, is audible throughout due to the pauses and silence that hangs in the room as the former president tries to remember dates and events.
    Peter Aitken Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Last year, on July 5, 2024, Earth experienced the shortest day ever recorded since the advent of the atomic clock 65 years ago, at 1.66 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
  • From when records began (with the invention of the atomic clock) in 1973 until 2020, the shortest day ever recorded was 1.05 milliseconds less than 24 hours, according to Timeanddate.com.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Modern technology is based heavily on precise clocks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 July 2025
  • The longest in the top 15 is Ginny & Georgia, whose third season clocks in at 10 hours, 34 minutes but racked up 48.1 million views in less than four weeks after its June 5 premiere.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 17 July 2025

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