clock-watchers

plural of clock-watcher

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clock-watchers
Noun
  • 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
  • Weakened stragglers were shot or simply collapsed and died on the road.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Migration typically peaks in September, but stragglers may still pass through in October depending on the region.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Through it all, there were clear winners and laggards in the third quarter — a diverse group spanning Big Tech to industrials.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The gap between leaders and laggards is growing fast.
    Kevin Pierce, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some swimming snails have lost their protective shells (more like swimming slugs), while others retain them.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That includes September’s Aloha Festivals, celebrating Hawaiian traditions, and the annual Kāhuli Festival at the Bishop Museum in October, a unique family-friendly event spotlighting the vital role of Hawaiian land snails in preserving biodiversity.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Clock-watchers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watchers. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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