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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock
This wagon is a German cuckoo clock with a screw loose, and as endearing as a house cat knocking a glass vase off the table.
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Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Other decorations included a popcorn bucket, a hamburger, a hot dog cart, a cuckoo clock and a rocking horse.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
That includes a large antique cuckoo clock, chandeliers, decorative shields, and a mural depicting a city in Germany.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Other decorations included a popcorn bucket, a hamburger, a hot dog cart, a cuckoo clock and a rocking horse.
—Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
That includes a large antique cuckoo clock, chandeliers, decorative shields, and a mural depicting a city in Germany.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
Noun
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The Mini Restful combines an air purifier and alarm clock in one compact bedside device, while the ComfortPure offers cooling, heating and purification for larger spaces up to 1,690 square feet.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
18 May 2026
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If so, the alarm clock is ringing.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Humphreys and his colleagues have demonstrated how a mock Starlink service can produce navigation and timing solutions with 10-meter-level accuracy if Starlink supplies the real-time clock and orbit corrections—albeit only after a minutes-long processing delay.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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The show originated at a design museum in Saint-Étienne; Musée des Arts et Métiers has supplemented it with lemons from its permanent collection, such as the ten-hour decimal-time clock, used during the French Revolution.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Creaky corridors stitch it all together: lined with grandfather clocks, China collections, historic sketches, and French antique mirrors.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2026
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History San Jose has received countless donations over the years, but few have caused so many people to go down research rabbit holes as a grandfather clock recently has.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2026
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To get extremely precise atomic measurements, Raizen proposes an experiment using a laser to cool and trap individual isotopes—variants of atoms—in an extremely precise atomic clock.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
13 May 2026
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Today’s atomic clocks keep time by tracking changes in an atom’s electrons.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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