as in alarm clock
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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
When the weights in a grandfather clock reach the bottom of their chains, the clock stops.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
Hager likes to style grandfather clocks in foyers and hallways.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
Hager likes to style grandfather clocks in foyers and hallways.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
Noun
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Set an alarm clock or reminder on your smartphone or download a free mobile app that offers medication reminders.—
Karen Berger, PharmD,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2025
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Like most Americans, you were awoken this morning by a radio alarm clock.—
Christian Schneider,
National Review,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Those in favor of seasonal time clock changes cite children walking to school in the dark with daylight saving time used in the winter.—
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
Boston Herald,
30 Oct. 2024
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So, if grad school and work have you at capacity, don’t worry about anyone else’s time clock for love or anything else.—
Eric Thomas,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2024
Noun
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There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2025
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But barring those machines, checking your watch now and again for precision against an atomic clock is a window into its invisible world.—
Allen Farmelo,
Robb Report,
2 Jan. 2025
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.—
Gregory James Wakeman,
IndieWire,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Grandfather clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather%20clock. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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