clicks

present tense third-person singular of click

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of clicks Some apprentices work hard and have relevant experience, yet the craft never fully clicks for them. Matthew Darienzo, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The tone continues to be placid, the plunky marimba and steel drum score remains the same, and the performances only grow to feel even more remarkably lived-in as the severity of the situation clicks into place. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026 The line clicks again and a new voice floods into the receiver. Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 On top, the power control is a familiar sliding switch that solidly clicks. Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 22 Aug. 2026 Publishers like Phia are prohibited from dropping cookies automatically unless a shopper clicks on a Phia link or uses a coupon offered by the company, according to rules set out in platform partners’ contracts. Bloomberg, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026 Each individual tool clicks into place and secures via the slide lock. New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2026 August is going to feel like the month that everything clicks into place, Scorpio. Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Aug. 2026 If an otherwise unexceptional song on Mount Zero is nearing its conclusion, be prepared for an epilogue where Medlyn or Elphick clicks on the distortion. Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clicks
Verb
  • And then Mowbray relates some personal evidence of what has not changed — Middlesbrough’s attachment to football.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Musk’s father, Errol Musk, is interviewed in the film and relates a telling incident in which the family drove by the scene of a man who was being resuscitated by the side of the road.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Bruce succeeds owner Donna Carpenter, who has served as interim CEO since June and will continue as chair of Burton’s board.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • John Madden‘s Onwards and Sideways succeeds better than most in avoiding the pitfalls.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The mop-haired actor plays Joey, a spunky boy onboard who bonds with Maddie over having absent parents in the military.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Nigel Starck, too, argues that obituaries provide a glue that bonds society not in grief but in an aspirational reevaluation of our own lives.
    Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Now a new Cherry Orchard, the work of another Australian auteur, Simon Stone, has put down roots in the cavernous drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory, and the angry young tutor goes even further.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Well, there’s one later episode that really does a deep dive into Andrew’s perspective and his experience of life that goes between a couple of different time periods of his life.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Clicks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clicks. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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