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Recent Examples of around-the-clock
Any further loss of positions at the aircraft operations center would have negative effects because there’s not a lot of staff depth to support the critical around-the-clock coverage in the days leading up to a hurricane landfall, said former hurricane hunters and hurricane specialists.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
The single mom from California moved from Orange County to Los Angeles to be closer to the best doctors and medical facilities, quit her job in real estate to care for her son around-the-clock and liquidated all her financial assets, including her retirement account.
—Marquise Francis, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Welcome back to the Miami Herald’s around-the-clock Dolphins free agent blog.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
The main countermeasure is mortar fire, which is cheap and mobile—again, not a serious constraint that requires around-the-clock shifts in Russian factories.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
The single mom from California moved from Orange County to Los Angeles to be closer to the best doctors and medical facilities, quit her job in real estate to care for her son around-the-clock and liquidated all her financial assets, including her retirement account.
—Marquise Francis, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Welcome back to the Miami Herald’s around-the-clock Dolphins free agent blog.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
The main countermeasure is mortar fire, which is cheap and mobile—again, not a serious constraint that requires around-the-clock shifts in Russian factories.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for around-the-clock
Adjective
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At the sentencing, the child’s father, Tyler Coyle, said the boy underwent three life-saving brain surgeries, countless hours of therapy, needed round-the-clock care and needed a wheelchair or walker.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2025
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The company aims to provide round-the-clock, low-carbon energy production.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In 2014, the Economic Policy Institute found that the real hourly wages of residential building workers remained 4.2 percent below their 2009 levels — even though wages in the rest of the private sector had largely recovered.—
Marcela Valdes,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Average hourly earnings increased 0.3% on the month, in line with the forecast, while the annual rate of 3.8% was 0.1 percentage point below the estimate and the lowest level since July 2024.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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In relatively lean times the budget lobbying grows even more intense — a cyclic phenomenon now playing out as politicians wrestle with multibillion-dollar shortfalls.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
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In relatively lean times the budget lobbying grows even more intense — a cyclic phenomenon now playing out as politicians wrestle with multi-billion-dollar shortfalls.—
Dan Walters,
Orange County Register,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Around-the-clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/around-the-clock. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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