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Recent Examples of stopwatch
The watch also includes a timer, a stopwatch, and an alarm.
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John Monaco, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
The Senate passed a package funding huge chunks of the federal government through September but setting a two-week stopwatch on the expiration of Homeland Security funding.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
But at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), sustainability doesn’t, and can’t, happen on a stopwatch.
—Essence, 27 Jan. 2026
The founders began surveying industries, including agriculture, food prep, hospitality, before landing in logistics warehouses, stopwatch in hand, to measure how long tasks took.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
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John Monaco, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
The Senate passed a package funding huge chunks of the federal government through September but setting a two-week stopwatch on the expiration of Homeland Security funding.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
But at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), sustainability doesn’t, and can’t, happen on a stopwatch.
—Essence, 27 Jan. 2026
The founders began surveying industries, including agriculture, food prep, hospitality, before landing in logistics warehouses, stopwatch in hand, to measure how long tasks took.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopwatch
Noun
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When Rexhepi started making watches under his Akrivia label in 2012, his first timepiece, the AK-01, was a tourbillon monopusher chronograph based on an ebauche movement.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
27 Apr. 2026
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Biebuyck pointed to the introduction of the TAG Heuer Monaco watch in 1969 as an innovative moment in the industry, as a square, water-resistant timepiece and one of the first watches powered by an automatic chronograph movement as a result of its collaboration known as Project 99.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
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 29 Apr. 2026.
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