alarm clock

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Recent Examples of alarm clock Some bedside storage also offers a useful platform for a laptop, alarm clock, or whatever else. Adam Williams may 30, New Atlas, 30 May 2025 And, as the continuing storyline of van Rhijn/Brook Forte house footman Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers) and his patented alarm clock that his new business partner Larry hopes to sell, illustrates, men have additional outlets for economic elevation. Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025 Like, say, the bell of the downstairs’ ball, Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers), and his ringing achievement in alarm clocks. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025 Other crucial plot developments have involved the reveal that a French chef wasn’t actually French, a plucky servant’s attempts to patent an alarm clock, and Agnes’s dramatic decision to cross the street in order to speak to the Russells in person. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for alarm clock
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Noun
  • 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
  • But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The towering grandfather clock in the foyer of Paul and Susan Monreal’s soon-to-be former home is far more than a conversation piece.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • The ticking of a grandfather clock in the White House's Map Room, where the interview took place, is audible throughout due to the pauses and silence that hangs in the room as the former president tries to remember dates and events.
    Peter Aitken Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Optical atomic clocks, quantum RF sensors and AI inspired by the rules of quantum physics are no longer on the horizon.
    Paul Lipman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Advertisement The shortest day ever recorded since atomic clocks went into operation in the 1950s occurred last year, on July 5, according to Date and Time, when the Earth shaved off 1.66 milliseconds.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • But with three short days predicted over the next few weeks by astronomers and clock watchers, this summer is something even more rare.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
  • The service clock was introduced largely because of Nadal’s lengthy rituals between points; Novak Djokovic has long been a master of the rope-a-dope: sowing doubts in a player’s mind about form, condition and mental state even if, underneath the antics, all is quiet.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 July 2025

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