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Recent Examples of stopwatch
Shifting from a customer evaluation to a customer learning focus requires a new mindset, especially from leaders with a clipboard and stopwatch mentality.
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Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
An epigenetic clock is a biological stopwatch that measures how old your body (or a part of it) appears to be on a molecular level, measuring changes in DNA methylation.
—New Atlas, 30 July 2025
At that point, the scientists aboard our plane pushed a button on a stopwatch.
—Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
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
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Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
An epigenetic clock is a biological stopwatch that measures how old your body (or a part of it) appears to be on a molecular level, measuring changes in DNA methylation.
—New Atlas, 30 July 2025
At that point, the scientists aboard our plane pushed a button on a stopwatch.
—Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopwatch
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The inner workings are also dazzling, with the self-winding Caliber CH 28-520 C FUS offering a dual time zone display, flyback chronograph, day/night indicators, and a date display.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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When the door is opened, the cluster comes to life with animation inspired by chronographs.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 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 20 Nov. 2025.
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