stopwatch

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Recent Examples of stopwatch As production ramped up, process engineers, who sometimes patrolled the assembly line with stopwatches, looked for bottlenecks and rejiggered the assembly line. 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 See All Example Sentences for stopwatch
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Noun
  • Yellow can be found on the pushers, the crown, the midcase, the outline around the dial, and one of the chronograph hands, while purple appears on the other chronograph hand, around the dial, and on the tachymeter scale.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
  • When the door is opened, the cluster comes to life with animation inspired by chronographs.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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