as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock
In April during Milan Design Week, the brand unveiled the temporary Ephemeral Store on Via Montenapoleone, with cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance and the womenswear collection displayed in a room that is a replica of the Hall of Mirrors in the royal Palace of Versailles.
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Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Located just south of the landmark American Brewery (the structure that looks like some fantasist vastly enlarged a cuckoo clock) this grouping of public utility structures fell on excruciatingly hard times.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Located just south of the landmark American Brewery (the structure that looks like some fantasist vastly enlarged a cuckoo clock) this grouping of public utility structures fell on excruciatingly hard times.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
—Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
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Standouts include the Oura Ring Gen3 Heritage and viral alarm clock, the Hatch Restore 3, which both rarely go on sale.—
Lily Wohlner,
Allure,
9 Oct. 2025
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This is an alarm clock and sound machine in one, with a huge bank of various sounds and meditations, as well as a customizable light show for winding down and waking up.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Here’s a deeper look at where efforts to end daylight saving time clock changes stand in each state: Congress Two bills would put the U.S. on year-round daylight saving time.—
Addy Bink,
The Hill,
6 Sep. 2025
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The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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Beyond supernatural encounters, the Beaux-Arts hotel is also a glittering grande dame of the French Quarter, with a revolving carousel bar, pristine marble floors, and a wooden grandfather clock that’s chimed in the lobby since 1909.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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The skeleton that pops out from behind the grandfather clock was the best gag of the night.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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Scientists first started cooling atoms down in an effort to make better atomic clocks back in the 1970s.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 Sep. 2025
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With that kind of narrowing, nuclear clocks are projected to surpass atomic clocks as the most sensitive instruments for probing ultralight dark matter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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