round-the-clock

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Recent Examples of round-the-clock And no one was hanging around Jane Doe’s former sorority house, except for a round-the-clock security guard parked in the driveway. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026 That’s more than half the Ameren area’s total requirement of 16 gigawatts of round-the-clock power in 2045. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026 However, round-the-clock trading may not be suitable for everything, according to Friedman. — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for round-the-clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for round-the-clock
Adjective
  • On a typical grid, there are few incentives for providing around-the-clock renewable energy.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The 44-year-old Connecticut resident and her two siblings help look after their mother, who has Alzheimer's disease and requires around-the-clock supervision.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Researchers estimated that the tool closed roughly a third of the hourly pay gap.
    — Zoë Schiffer, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Lowe’s operates over 1,700 stores and has about 300,000 workers, mostly hourly.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Plants use them to make their light-catching chlorophyll, while bacteria make similar cyclic compounds for their own functioning.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
  • El Niño is a cyclic climate pattern that occurs when part of the Pacific Ocean is unusually warm, affecting weather across the world.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Round-the-clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/round-the-clock. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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