cuckoo clock

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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024 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 Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door. Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 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. Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cuckoo clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
Noun
  • After Knutson’s murder, investigators discovered that the roommates were allegedly getting into arguments over alarm clocks and pet fish.
    Caroline Blair, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • In one part of the world, children wake up to the sound of bombs, not alarm clocks.
    Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There’s the meetings there, there’s the time clocks.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Biden’s decor included a handful of paintings, a grandfather clock and a subtle bit of greenery on the fireplace mantle.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That includes a demonstration of refined maneuvers for free-floating robots, an enhanced air quality monitoring system that could be used for missions to the moon and Mars, and two atomic clocks.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Rubidium is found in the earth’s crust alongside lithium and is used in technologies such as atomic clocks, motion sensors, signal generators, and GPS equipment—technologies that all rely on the hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium atoms to keep time.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2025

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