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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
Beyond supernatural encounters, the Beaux-Arts hotel is also a glittering grande dame of the French Quarter, with a revolving carousel bar, pristine marble floors, and a wooden grandfather clock that’s chimed in the lobby since 1909.
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Your phone and computer will change the time automatically, but remember to turn your other clocks back an hour, including the oven and microwave, your watch and grandfather clock, before going to sleep on Saturday night, Nov. 1.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
If a bunch of grandfather clocks are put in room together, for example, the biggest amplitude signal will entrain the others.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Your phone and computer will change the time automatically, but remember to turn your other clocks back an hour, including the oven and microwave, your watch and grandfather clock, before going to sleep on Saturday night, Nov. 1.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
If a bunch of grandfather clocks are put in room together, for example, the biggest amplitude signal will entrain the others.
—Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
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For the next few days, instead of a blaring alarm clock and taxi cab horns, I am awoken by the deep belly laughter of hippos who live in the lagoon directly outside my door.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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And that alarm clock is beginning to tick.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Jan. 2026
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Case dismissed — and then reinstated Madison Equities then convinced the district court that under the rules of civil procedure, the time clock on the two-year statute of limitations began in late 2019 at the latest, not late 2021, and the case should be dismissed for lack of timeliness.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
7 Jan. 2026
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Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
27 Dec. 2025
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon, disrupting the agency’s atomic clock, spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025
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Optical atomic clocks, which use intersecting laser beams to entrap and monitor the atoms, are currently accurate down to 1 attosecond, or a billionth of a billionth of a second.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 Dec. 2025
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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
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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
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“Grandfather clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather%20clock. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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