grandfather clock

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Recent Examples of grandfather clock One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025 By the front door: a grandfather clock built by Hermann’s woodworker father. Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025 The Cabinet Room has been outfitted with new ceiling medallions and a grandfather clock. Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2025 The towering grandfather clock in the foyer of Paul and Susan Monreal’s soon-to-be former home is far more than a conversation piece. William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for grandfather clock
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Noun
  • Standouts include the Oura Ring Gen3 Heritage and viral alarm clock, the Hatch Restore 3, which both rarely go on sale.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This is an alarm clock and sound machine in one, with a huge bank of various sounds and meditations, as well as a customizable light show for winding down and waking up.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s a deeper look at where efforts to end daylight saving time clock changes stand in each state: Congress Two bills would put the U.S. on year-round daylight saving time.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The first-ever deployment of a quantum optical atomic clock on an underwater autonomous submarine has been successfully completed.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Scientists first started cooling atoms down in an effort to make better atomic clocks back in the 1970s.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025

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