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Recent Examples of time clock
Case dismissed — and then reinstated Madison Equities then convinced the district court that under the rules of civil procedure, the time clock on the two-year statute of limitations began in late 2019 at the latest, not late 2021, and the case should be dismissed for lack of timeliness.
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026
Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2025
The plaintiffs also pointed to earlier cases in which courts held that mandatory screenings and time spent walking from time clocks to workstations were both compensable.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Dec. 2025
The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.
—John Seabrook
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026
Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2025
The plaintiffs also pointed to earlier cases in which courts held that mandatory screenings and time spent walking from time clocks to workstations were both compensable.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Dec. 2025
The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.
—John Seabrook
june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for time clock
Noun
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In 2007, as the 20-year anniversary loomed, an alarm clock went off in my gut.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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This smart alarm clock makes getting up — and going to bed — a little easier.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once started, the toy acts essentially like a grandfather clock, which also happens to be that one co-worker who drops by your cubicle for a chat.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Just visit the store's 240-year-old grandfather clock.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which could test the limits of the Standard Model and even search for elusive dark matter.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon, disrupting the agency’s atomic clock, spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The bird in question was supposed to be a rooster, but when the clockmaker tested his little leather bellows, the rooster sounded rather anemic, and the cuckoo clock was born.—
Kendra Atleework,
Longreads,
12 Mar. 2026
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During Milan Design Week last April, the brand unveiled the Ephemeral Store on Via Montenapoleone, with cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance and the womenswear collection displayed in a room that is a replica of the Hall of Mirrors in the royal Palace of Versailles.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Time clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20clock. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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