as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of cuckoo clock
Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuckoo clock
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Other crucial plot developments have involved the reveal that a French chef wasn’t actually French, a plucky servant’s attempts to patent an alarm clock, and Agnes’s dramatic decision to cross the street in order to speak to the Russells in person.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
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Our yards are in bloom, the worst of the summer heat hasn’t quite kicked in yet, and the promise of a summer without lunch boxes, homework, and early-morning alarm clocks is upon us.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
16 May 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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But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The ticking of a grandfather clock in the White House's Map Room, where the interview took place, is audible throughout due to the pauses and silence that hangs in the room as the former president tries to remember dates and events.—
Peter Aitken
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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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
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Closer to home, physicists study vibrations of atoms, such as those used in atomic clocks, to look for deviations from pure constancy.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
23 May 2025
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The payloads aboard this Dragon cargo mission—the 32nd by SpaceX—include normal things like fresh food (exactly 1,262 tortillas), biomedical and pharmaceutical experiments, and the technical demonstration of a new atomic clock.—
Abigail Bassett,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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