clock-watcher

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clock-watcher
Noun
  • From an outdoor kitchen emerged a lavish feast: bruschetta topped with mangrove clams; squash soup with snails; fish fritters; sea-bass kinilaw—ceviche’s Filipino cousin—cured with lime and young-coconut vinegar.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2025
  • In Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world, rocky outcrops provide a home for freshwater snails.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Would Mickey 17's creepers defeat Dune's sandworms in battle?
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The latter includes premium materials and takes inspiration from men’s dress shoes and creepers.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Creators Michael Jacobs and April Kelly imbued endless love into the life story of Cory Matthews (Ben Savage): a witty neurotic who grew from a slacker sixth grader into a full-on family man across the series seven seasons and 158 episodes on ABC.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 20 May 2025
  • The most compelling evidence to debunk the myth that parents are slackers comes from a work team study.
    Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And some erratic vibrations were detected at points last week as the stark outperformance of year-to-date laggards over the top 2025 performers prompted some comparisons to the nasty momentum-stock reversal of February and March that upset the market well before the tariff panic.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 June 2025
  • Those dolts and laggards that were holding them back are no longer a boat anchor.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Reddit also has implemented safeguards to block bots and web crawlers from scraping its data.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 6 June 2025
  • The community is also developing collaborative tools to help protect against these crawlers.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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