Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clock-watchers
Noun
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These are not bored slackers experimenting for fun.—
Chris Wysopal,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025 -
Beavis and Butt-Head season 3 The iconic ’90s slackers are back.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There were very few stragglers, if any, arriving late.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Weakened stragglers were shot or simply collapsed and died on the road.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Economies that embed decarbonization into their growth models are becoming magnets for investment; laggards are already seeing their cost of capital rise.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The study finds the performance gap between AI leaders and laggards is widening fast, primarily driven by the rise of agentic AI.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The gastropods, which are similar to snails, are generally more plentiful on the beaches.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Around the same time, thousands of endemic water snails, which form a crucial part of the lagoon’s food chain, washed up dead on the shore.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Although the crawlers are more common in the western half of the state, they can be found in every county in Tennessee with the possible exception of a few extreme eastern counties.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
2 Oct. 2025
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The company was supposed to have blocked crawlers from Google harvesting Claude chats, but hundreds of conversations were found with some simple searches.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Clock-watchers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watchers. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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