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Example Sentences
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"Around 200 people have worked tirelessly around the clock in searching for this beautiful little girl who went missing five days ago," Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Most of them clock in at around 35 minutes, although the latest season premiere runs just over an hour.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
In one instance, he exploited a loophole in the rulebook that allowed the Titans to eat up nearly two minutes of clock in the fourth quarter without running any plays, simply by committing presnap penalties.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
He earned his PhD in 2006 from the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University, where he studied the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
I heard something else: my heart thumping, blood pumping in my ears, the distant tick of the clock in the hallway downstairs.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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