time clock

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Recent Examples of time clock The scoreboards went out, the time clocks were stopped and play was halted on all four sheets. Zack Pierce, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026 The one-time refinery worker, who showed up each day in a hard hat, said national Democrats have gone out of their way to alienate people who punch time clocks and take their showers after work. John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 25 Jan. 2026 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for time clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for time clock
Noun
  • If so, the alarm clock is ringing.
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • Traditionalists need look no further than this vintage-style analog alarm clock.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • History San Jose has received countless donations over the years, but few have caused so many people to go down research rabbit holes as a grandfather clock recently has.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Business execs and a sophisticated international clientele mix and mingle over cocktails or afternoon tea in the lobby’s plush, Art Deco-inspired Peacock Alley, adorned with the Waldorf’s signature grandfather clock.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • To get extremely precise atomic measurements, Raizen proposes an experiment using a laser to cool and trap individual isotopes—variants of atoms—in an extremely precise atomic clock.
    K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
  • Today’s atomic clocks keep time by tracking changes in an atom’s electrons.
    Andrei Derevianko, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps the notion appealed to nineteenth-century tastes for cuckoo clocks and ideas about mechanistic, orderly nature.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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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“Time clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time%20clock. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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