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ticks

noun

plural of tick

as in seconds

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Recent Examples of ticks How to keep disease-carrying ticks at bay The best way to avoid ticks and tick bites is to be vigilant in your surroundings, Foley said, noting that ticks can transmit other diseases such as Lyme disease. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026 Botts says some people like to remove or dispose of ticks with nail polish, fire and Vaseline — but there is a simple and effective method recommended for tick removal. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026 Grow Scented Plants Groundcover plants can provide a sheltering spot for ticks and may not be the best choice for tick-prone areas. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026 Checking yourself and your pets for ticks every hour or so when in tick territory is also a good idea. — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 4 June 2026 The ticks were then tested for five human disease-causing pathogens including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Lyme disease, hard tick relapsing fever and Powassan virus. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026 Rich says the region is growing in both the number of ticks and tick species. — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026 Of the ticks collected, about 3,500, or more than 65%, are the American dog (wood) tick. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025 This would either be an acaricide — a pesticide that kills ticks and mites, and is found in many pet flea collars and tick medications — or a vaccine that would make the deer more resistant to Lyme disease over time. — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025

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Noun

The ambulance arrived 27 minutes and 30 seconds into the incident.

— Brian Maass, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Like the Series 12, the Ultra 4 can measure your heart rate every five seconds and checks heart rate variability (HRV) 24 times more often than the previous generations.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of seconds

Noun

Italian department store La Rinascente is 15-minutes away on foot, and cosmopolitan Monti, with its bars and shops, is a 10-minute walk away.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
Thirty minutes later, after a physician examined him, he was pronounced dead and covered with a white sheet.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of minutes

Noun

Keith, who was widely respected as an architect of modern hip-hop, started making beats as a teenager and went on to create a signature sound adapted from legendary Southern groups such as Three 6 Mafia and 8Ball & MJG.

— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
This year’s lineup includes a Selena tribute and the tropical Afro-Latino beats of Quitapenas.

— Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of beats

Noun

Instead, the past week has been spent relitigating the final nanoseconds of the Wolverines’ 13-12 victory against Western Michigan.

— Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Round-trip latency could fall from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds, representing a reduction of up to an order of magnitude.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of nanoseconds

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Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare heart condition that can cause irregular heartbeats and sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy individuals, per John Hopkins Medicine.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of heartbeats

Noun

It’s presented without winks or nudges, neither as a joke nor necessarily foolish.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
The new Scary Movie, from writer-stars Marlon and Shawn Wayans and director Michael Tiddes, opens with knowing winks to the 2000 original film, which featured Electra in a scene inspired by Drew Barrymore's opening scene in Scream.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026

Definition of winks

Noun

Biographers and historians have documented that Stewart suffered from severe psychological trauma, which caused digestive issues, insomnia, nightmares, shakes and sweats.

— Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Visitors can try the area’s signature raspberry shakes and stay in waterfront rentals, covered wagons, lodges, or campgrounds.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of shakes

Noun

But when Emma never shows up to their meeting, Pao and Dante will have to go on an epic quest— filled with awkward moments, sarcasm, and somewhat reluctant friendships—to save their best friend.

— Kavya Dhillon, Parents, 19 Sep. 2026
In its strongest moments, the film illustrates how the often contradictory desires for individual liberation and family connection are universal experiences.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2026

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