as in alarm clock
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 sunrise alarm clock also has a convenient sunset mode and five nature sounds.
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Even within the walls of the apartment, there was the hum of the refrigerator, the soft ticking of a radio alarm clock and the clock in the VCR, the submarine tlack of the cassette reversing in the answering machine, and other little noises.
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.
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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.
Noun
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Creaky corridors stitch it all together: lined with grandfather clocks, China collections, historic sketches, and French antique mirrors.
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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.
Noun
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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.
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Today’s atomic clocks keep time by tracking changes in an atom’s electrons.
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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