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As production ramped up, process engineers, who sometimes patrolled the assembly line with stopwatches, looked for bottlenecks and rejiggered the assembly line.
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Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
The tools include a Glyph mirror, digital clock, stopwatch, battery indicator, and solar clock, while the games include Spin the Bottle and Magic 8 Ball.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
Not bad for a 75-year-old sport that originally relied solely upon one tool for decades: a stopwatch.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 27 June 2025
His speed won’t light up stopwatches, and his 30 1/8-inch arms won’t bring smiles to the faces of scouts.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
The tools include a Glyph mirror, digital clock, stopwatch, battery indicator, and solar clock, while the games include Spin the Bottle and Magic 8 Ball.
—Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
Not bad for a 75-year-old sport that originally relied solely upon one tool for decades: a stopwatch.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 27 June 2025
His speed won’t light up stopwatches, and his 30 1/8-inch arms won’t bring smiles to the faces of scouts.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopwatch
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Roger Dubuis Excalibur Spider Flyback Chronograph This high-octane flyback chronograph from Roger Dubuis takes its cues from Lamborghini Squadra Corse’s SC63 hypercar, which is campaigned in the Le Mans Daytona Hybrid (LMDh) class.—
Carol Besler,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
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Functions include hours, minutes, seconds, chronograph and date functions.—
Carol Besler,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The first sundials and water clocks were determined to have been used in 1200 B.C. by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Days sometimes may feel like mere hours when times are good, and the moments may barely tick by in a dull day, but the passage of Earth around the sun hasn’t changed in an easily measurable way since humans first started using sundials.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
31 July 2025
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopwatch. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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