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tick

[tik] / tɪk /




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Donald worked as landscape gardener before suffering from a stroke and later contracting Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called on," Ronaldo said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

On a recent afternoon I joined Roden-Reynolds, the public health biologist, as he surveyed an elderly couple’s yard in Chilmark, a tick hot spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The noise of the tick echoed through her, and she wrestled with it, willing it to stop.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

A treatment to eliminate ticks on deer, like a tick collar on dogs, shows promise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Gold ticks up 0.2% to $4,362 an ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

ISM factory index ticks down in August as price pressure continues to build.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Japan currently ticks all three of those boxes,” says Colvin.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

“And Cotton had two ticks on him,” Howard was saying.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

The shares ticked up ahead of the bell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note ticked up 0.011 percentage point to 5.243%, closing within seven basis points of a multidecade high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The greenback ticked down from multiyear highs Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He ticked through a laundry list of Florida constituents – retirees, teachers, emergency workers, restaurant staff and local government employees, flagging that they need to be able to "make ends meet".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The moments of suspense ticked by for what seemed ages until Matthias managed to squeeze past the serpent’s head.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

With the hours ticking down to the closing ceremony, when Japan will hand over the baton to Doha, top officials were on the defensive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The sets have too many doors, the scenes have a delirious number of extras and the actors yell their lines over the distracting clatter of crackling fireplaces, beeping machines and ticking clocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“While the constant rotation has kept us from seeing a correlation-one selloff, we continue to think the clock is ticking, and we see one sooner than later,” says Krinsky.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

"He's a superstar and I'd love to think I'd have the opportunity to be up against him again, but I don't know, maybe time is ticking."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s 6:55 a.m., his ticking clock tells him.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers




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