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Recent Examples of grandfather clock
The Charlotte native has already conquered the paperclip twice at the Cup level, taking home those iconic grandfather clocks in 2022 and 2024.
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Greg Engle, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Mercury found its way into thermometers, mirrors, telescopes, paint, and the pendulums of grandfather clocks.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Behind them was a painting that Carter had made of the same room, with its grandfather clock, rocking chairs, and roll-top desk.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
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Greg Engle, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
There, firefighters were seen retrieving what looked like about two dozen photo albums, a grandfather clock and several other possible antiques from the house.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Mercury found its way into thermometers, mirrors, telescopes, paint, and the pendulums of grandfather clocks.
—Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Behind them was a painting that Carter had made of the same room, with its grandfather clock, rocking chairs, and roll-top desk.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
Noun
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Plus, some offer handy features like an alarm clock, a calendar app, the ability to answer texts, and so on.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
31 Mar. 2025
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Old Electronics Items like alarm clocks and stereos in working condition are often fair game, but televisions and microwaves, for example, are not.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s the meetings there, there’s the time clocks.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
21 Mar. 2025
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The total roasting time clocks in around 30 minutes, start to finish.—
Jessica Saari Christensen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Rubidium is found in the earth’s crust alongside lithium and is used in technologies such as atomic clocks, motion sensors, signal generators, and GPS equipment—technologies that all rely on the hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium atoms to keep time.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Feb. 2025
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However, compared to a quantum clock, atomic clocks are as accurate as a one-dollar antique pocket watch that's been whacked several times with a coal hammer.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2025
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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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Located just south of the landmark American Brewery (the structure that looks like some fantasist vastly enlarged a cuckoo clock) this grouping of public utility structures fell on excruciatingly hard times.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Grandfather clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grandfather%20clock. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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