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
The Charlotte native has already conquered the paperclip twice at the Cup level, taking home those iconic grandfather clocks in 2022 and 2024.
—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
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
The Charlotte native has already conquered the paperclip twice at the Cup level, taking home those iconic grandfather clocks in 2022 and 2024.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grandfather clock
Noun
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And now, its five-color drop is blessing us all with a new excuse to snooze our alarm clocks.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
3 June 2025
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Exactly 100 percent of US imports for some very common household items — including hair curlers, ultrasonic humidifiers, alarm clocks, and yes, electric toasters — come from China, according to data from the US Census Bureau.—
Adam Clark Estes,
Vox,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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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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Closer to home, physicists study vibrations of atoms, such as those used in atomic clocks, to look for deviations from pure constancy.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
23 May 2025
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The payloads aboard this Dragon cargo mission—the 32nd by SpaceX—include normal things like fresh food (exactly 1,262 tortillas), biomedical and pharmaceutical experiments, and the technical demonstration of a new atomic clock.—
Abigail Bassett,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 10 Jun. 2025.
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