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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock
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.
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Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
Noun
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Looming over camp, Black Brushy Mountain was outlined by the early morning glow when the alarm clock rattled me from a sound sleep.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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Ignoring your alarm clock will become a daily happening bordering on the opulent.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In one of the spy spoof’s great running gags, his resentful Agent 13 would pop up in mailboxes, grandfather clocks, fire hydrants, planters, etc. while on uncomfortable undercover assignments.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
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One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025
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Weiss developed a precise atomic clock, and was also a pioneer in the measurement of a cosmic fossil called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), leftover radiation from an event just after the Big Bang.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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But scientists who track and operate atomic clocks may be facing a bit of a predicament.—
James Powel,
Freep.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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