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timer

[tahy-mer] / ˈtaɪ mər /
NOUN
chronometer
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“Likely follow-up changes year or country; timer may be very short.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The timer could include a message that says, “You’ve got five minutes to complete this sale,” or “Enter your credit card now or the price will go up,” Moore said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

To appreciate sentiment’s role in gold’s surprising weakness, consider how exuberant the average gold timer was over the four months leading up to the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

But there’s nothing like listening to your tiny baby screaming on the other side of the door while waiting for a timer to go off so you can go comfort them.

From Slate ● May 3, 2026

When she’d left the classroom, she’d set the timer for fifteen minutes.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

I use the Amazon Echo Show device daily, sometimes to play music, but mostly to set timers and turn off all the lights before bedtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bambi, a woman in her late 60s, began consuming conspiratorial media so religiously that she set timers to make sure she didn’t miss podcasts.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

To find out, I analyzed my auditing firm’s database of stock market timers back to 1980.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The cooking part was over, the timers went off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Old-timers—or as old as timers got in a city as young as Mica—said they had never heard such a racket.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli


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