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Recent Examples of stopwatch
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.
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Leadership stability at HBCUs is not a sprint and it cannot be built 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
Yoko eventually screened it with a stopwatch, to measure how much screen time Paul got versus John.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 31 Jan. 2026
Leadership stability at HBCUs is not a sprint and it cannot be built 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
Yoko eventually screened it with a stopwatch, to measure how much screen time Paul got versus John.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopwatch
Noun
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The Toric was the first watch Parmigiani released back in 1996, though this particular chronograph was launched in the early 2000s.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
25 Feb. 2026
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On the chronograph side, two column wheels control the levers and hammers.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
23 Feb. 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 19 Mar. 2026.
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