timer
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A timer on a fake checkout site can add pressure as the scammer tries to rush you and keep you from checking the site too closely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 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
"I started doing it on my granny's kitchen floor and begged my mum for a timer mat and cup," Ivy said.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Were this another sport—football, basketball, baseball—they’d be swooning over Alcaraz as an all timer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Set a timer on a cell phone, watch, or oven; punch in three minutes; and see what you can do.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Most of the old timers didn’t like that.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
And if out-of-towners are visiting, the ranks of the older timers swells a few more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
This means that market timers can’t use geopolitical risk as a reliable guide to gold’s short-term movements.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
There are egg timers and even four-minute songs that can keep time for you.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Sick about Sammy, I queried from bar to bar among old- timers for West Indian Archie.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
