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Recent Examples of countdown
The rehearsal will then recycle the clock to T-10 minutes and hold, and then resume countdown down to T-30 seconds.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Its website’s home page features a countdown clock marking the days until Vasquez is due to deliver his recommendations.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
The countdown to Girl Scout cookie season is officially on, and the first big deliveries have already arrived in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The show will include a live countdown clock as the ceremony approaches, ensuring viewers don’t miss a second of the action.
—William Earl, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Its website’s home page features a countdown clock marking the days until Vasquez is due to deliver his recommendations.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
The countdown to Girl Scout cookie season is officially on, and the first big deliveries have already arrived in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The show will include a live countdown clock as the ceremony approaches, ensuring viewers don’t miss a second of the action.
—William Earl, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countdown
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Is it reduced to yet another fill-in-the-blank preliminary to a national title game in some super-duper-they-look-alike stadium?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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Two weeks after Miss Jamaica, Dr. Gabrielle Henry, suffered a shocking fall during the Miss Universe preliminaries in Bangkok, the organization is offering an update on her condition.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The two countries did made tentative overtures in the late 1990s, when Iranians were electing politicians on promises of greater personal freedom and openness.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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City are well aware Guardiola can be an emotional guy and there have been a couple of seasons during his time as their manager, with his future up in the air — the summer of 2024, especially — when making overtures to potential replacements would have been a sensible idea.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Ezeiruaku, 22, was a second-round draft pick out of Boston College in 2025 and appeared in all 17 games as a rookie, including nine starts.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Jan. 2026
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Dallas' Jaden Hardy, making his second start of the season, scored 11 of his 14 points in the first five minutes, including three of his four 3-pointers.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And so, as a prelude to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians have searched for blowups (also called singularities) in an assortment of simplified fluid equations, such as those that operate in only one dimension.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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Previous rounds of popular unrest have also seen the government shut down communications, usually as a prelude to an all-out crackdown.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Countdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countdown. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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