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Recent Examples of atomic clock
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.
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
This particular clock is technically an ion clock, which is different from the more common atomic clocks that are based on measuring the resonant frequencies of a single cesium atom to regulate time keeping.
—New Atlas, 18 July 2025
Optical atomic clocks deliver timing accuracy at the picosecond level and operate independently of GPS, allowing the defense network to stay precisely in sync, even in congested or contested environments.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
The system comprises a network of atomic clocks housed at four secure facilities across the country, including Teddington.
—William Ralston, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
This particular clock is technically an ion clock, which is different from the more common atomic clocks that are based on measuring the resonant frequencies of a single cesium atom to regulate time keeping.
—New Atlas, 18 July 2025
Optical atomic clocks deliver timing accuracy at the picosecond level and operate independently of GPS, allowing the defense network to stay precisely in sync, even in congested or contested environments.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
The system comprises a network of atomic clocks housed at four secure facilities across the country, including Teddington.
—William Ralston, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atomic clock
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Looming over camp, Black Brushy Mountain was outlined by the early morning glow when the alarm clock rattled me from a sound sleep.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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Ignoring your alarm clock will become a daily happening bordering on the opulent.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Aug. 2025
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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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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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One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 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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“Atomic clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atomic%20clock. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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