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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.
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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
Neither the stopwatch nor Alonso’s body are telling him his choice could be close.
—Luke Smith, New York Times, 31 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
Neither the stopwatch nor Alonso’s body are telling him his choice could be close.
—Luke Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopwatch
Noun
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The hour markers and minute track float above the retrograde chronograph, creating a real statement on the wrist.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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For the watchmaker, that decade saw the development of the El Primero caliber, the first automatic high-frequency chronograph movement, one that came with a full-rotor design giving it 1/10th-of-a-second precision.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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 19 Sep. 2025.
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