tick-tock

Example Sentences

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Ultimately, the researchers found that the tick-tock of the quasar clocks behaved just as Einstein’s relativity predicts.

From Scientific American • Jul. 19, 2023

The company is in a tick-tock release pattern of sorts with its popular 6-Series TV.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2022

“I’m not going to relitigate the tick-tock of yesterday from here today,” Ms. Psaki said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2021

There is seismic change all around, yet they're absorbed in the practiced ritual of breathlessly tracking who is up and who is down, because the superficial power tick-tock is what they fixate on.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2021

A great complexity of surface activity, but all happening as a result of the tick-tock of a simple pendulum.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin