tick
Example Sentences
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Across the U.S., just 4.1% of returns ticked the same box.
That was in line with the expansion expected by economists and slightly ahead of Statistics Canada’s advance estimate that GDP would tick up 0.1%.
“It’s clear that he has navigated the fraught shoals of the bureaucratic politics of the administration effectively. He hasn’t ticked off anybody who matters, and that’s a lot by itself.”
With the clock ticking down towards next year's election, the president appears concerned about the way that people are responding to him.
From BBC
The number of people collecting benefits did tick up slightly for the week ending Nov. 15 to 1.96 million claims.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
