clock-watcher

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Noun
  • Certainly, my films aren’t for little kids, although with this film, at so many screenings, when the lights come up, the whole front row is little kids with snail hats on.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Similarly, several snail species thought to be lost were rediscovered, underscoring the transformative impact of removing invasive species.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Alan is the name of the neighborhood creeper, who seems to be fixated on Becka.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Wear creepers attached to boots to prevent slipping on clear ice. Carry a spud bar to check the ice while walking to new areas.
    Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba is very serious, without Idina Menzel’s deadpan humor, and Bailey’s Fiyero is played like a straight-ahead charmer, not a slyly fun slacker, and Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible is grounded instead of grand.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Apple was one of the biggest laggards of the group, falling nearly 4% to extend this year’s losses to more than 8%.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Leading companies have three times as many full-time employees upskilled on AI over their laggard counterparts.
    Brian Solis, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index.
    Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Transcription provides crawlers with valuable content to index, potentially improving your search ranking.
    Beth Worthy, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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 6 Feb. 2025.

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