timekeepers

plural of timekeeper
as in clocks
a device to measure time the museum includes some ancient water clocks and sundials in its collection of historical timekeepers

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Recent Examples of timekeepers Evans hit another amazing dive to the outside on Theory before tossing Breakker into the timekeepers area. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 As the timekeepers speak, 90 minutes before the peloton is due in Belfort on stage 13, their work is all but done. Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 July 2026 The accelerating rotation is fast enough, however, that timekeepers foresee the need for the first ever negative leap second—which could cause unknown and potentially catastrophic infrastructure problems. Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 July 2026 Since a nucleus is far better shielded from environmental disturbances than the electrons used in atomic clocks, nuclear clocks could eventually become the most precise timekeepers ever built. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026 The market for both types of timekeepers peaked in the 1970s and ’80s, when demand was largely driven by collectors of antiques. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 May 2026 The timekeepers even captured a picture of the dog crossing the finish line. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026 Planning for the current Milano-Cortina Games began three years ago, with more than 300 timekeepers and 130 tons of equipment dedicated to the Games, including high-speed cameras that can capture up to 40,000 digital images per second. Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026 The most precise timekeepers ever made, atomic clocks, might one day help robotic and crewed missions on Mars stay in sync with each other, as well as enable the equivalent of GPS on the red planet. IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for timekeepers
clocks
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  • One Night Only is literally all contrivance, as attested to by the countdown clocks posted everywhere to alert everyone as to when the Sex Purge will be over.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Her team hopes to use artificial intelligence to build genomic clocks — models based on patterns of molecular rather than behavioral changes — to estimate an animal’s biological age and help pinpoint when key transitions in aging occur.
    Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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