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
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
Couric also provides a deftly written tick-tock on her reaction to the downfall of her longtime co-anchor Matt Lauer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
When the hands tick-tock onto the four, the monkeys go home and the jabberjays come out to play.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
