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Recent Examples of hourly
Adverb
Pay Papa pals are paid hourly at rates from $13 to $19 per hour. Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025 The National Weather Service, NOAA weather stations, and Esri update the data hourly. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
In a society cleaved into labor sellers and capital owners, every increase in workers’ hourly productivity tends to accelerate their worldly dispossession. Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025 In 2014, the Economic Policy Institute found that the real hourly wages of residential building workers remained 4.2 percent below their 2009 levels — even though wages in the rest of the private sector had largely recovered. Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hourly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hourly
Adverb
  • Maybe Mara, the Tisch family and the new minority owners will just ride this regime out through its fifth season regardless to run out the clock on their contracts and avoid constantly paying multiple regimes at once — just like Cowboys owner Jerry Jones did with Mike McCarthy to save a few bucks.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Her lymph nodes swelled constantly, but biopsies showed no cancer.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Location always dictates the context of home pricing, for example oceanfront California homes often do not include air conditioning, a factor that would otherwise undermine property value.
    William Jones, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2025
  • This boundary is often soft, warm, or lightly magnetic.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Weather-dependent sources of electricity predictably prove to be a poor match for the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers, much less homes and businesses.
    Terry Jarrett, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • But with their mom no longer trusted to provide that and the shelter unable to offer around-the-clock care, the authorities sought help from outside.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Our expert take The American Express® Green Card is geared toward those who frequently travel and eat out often, but don’t want to shell out on a premium card.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Since then, it’s frequently been the target of litigation, starting in 1947 when the duo sued to invalidate DC’s ownership of the rights to Superman.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Jones Road Forest Fire, advancing near the plant that still houses spent fuel, has led to evacuations and triggered round-the-clock oversight.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Today, digital cameras have rendered round-the-clock observations of the night sky both practical and affordable.
    Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Air traffic control room fight at Reagan National Airport leads to arrest Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has repeatedly emphasized that flying is safe.
    Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Arrested repeatedly since the height of the Egyptian uprising in 2011, he was sentenced in 2021 to an additional five years in prison for spreading false news and assaulting a police officer – charges that human rights organizations say were politically motivated.
    Mounira Elsamra, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • First, pertussis naturally occurs in cyclic epidemics, peaking every two to five years.
    Annette Regan, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The next step is to do a quick breathing routine like a cyclic sigh, which has really strong health benefits and really produces calm.
    Shannon Carpenter, CNN Money, 18 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • There’s a sensor dry feature that continually monitors temperature and moisture to determine the appropriate drying time.
    Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Under America's new trading framework, and the continually expanding list of nations and goods subject to President Donald Trump's tariffs, many states will be forced to spend billions more to sustain their current levels of imports.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Hourly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hourly. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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