alarm clock

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Recent Examples of alarm clock On my off days, my dog is my alarm clock. R29 Team, Refinery29, 29 Sep. 2025 Every room features flat-screen LCD televisions, floor-to-ceiling windows, an alarm clock radio with MP3 connectivity, and a safe and 24-hour room service. Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025 That's when the alarm clock rings. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2025 No Bible, no book of devotion, no alarm clock marred the worldly charm of her bedside table. Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for alarm clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarm clock
Noun
  • Here’s a deeper look at where efforts to end daylight saving time clock changes stand in each state: Congress Two bills would put the U.S. on year-round daylight saving time.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • That includes a large antique cuckoo clock, chandeliers, decorative shields, and a mural depicting a city in Germany.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Beyond supernatural encounters, the Beaux-Arts hotel is also a glittering grande dame of the French Quarter, with a revolving carousel bar, pristine marble floors, and a wooden grandfather clock that’s chimed in the lobby since 1909.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The skeleton that pops out from behind the grandfather clock was the best gag of the night.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Scientists first started cooling atoms down in an effort to make better atomic clocks back in the 1970s.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
  • With that kind of narrowing, nuclear clocks are projected to surpass atomic clocks as the most sensitive instruments for probing ultralight dark matter.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Freddie Freeman worked a walk – he and Misiorowski each working the pitch clock.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • His hobby was working on watches and replicating modern era works as dollhouse clocks.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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