clock-watcher

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clock-watcher
Noun
  • Slugs, snails, and even earwigs will often congregate in these damp spots and be much easier to collect.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025
  • The snail itself wasn’t found with the shells, but the shell was enough to diagnose the animal, Czaja said.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Would Mickey 17's creepers defeat Dune's sandworms in battle?
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The latter includes premium materials and takes inspiration from men’s dress shoes and creepers.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Judge introduced his iconic slacker duo way back in 1993, debuting on MTV’s toon mashup Liquid Television.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 24 July 2025
  • Breckin Meyer played the slacker stoner Travis Birkenstock in Clueless, which was based on actors like Sean Penn in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Keanu Reeves in the 1989 films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Parenthood.
    Julia Emmanuele, People.com, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla remains the biggest laggard in the group, with its stock down about 17% this year heading into Wednesday’s earnings report after the bell.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 22 July 2025
  • Forty-six percent of supply chain laggards cited supply chain disruptions on their earnings calls, while 37 percent reported delays as major contributors to underperformance.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Treatment with contact insecticides after the crawlers have settled down and molted to the second nymphal stage of their lifecycle is not effective.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2025
  • Pay per crawl is currently in private beta; interested sites and crawlers can reach out to Cloudflare.
    Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Clock-watcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clock-watcher. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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