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That’s three minutes longer than last year and the longest since the introduction of the pitch clock in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Most of them clock in at around 35 minutes, although the latest season premiere runs just over an hour.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
He earned his PhD in 2006 from the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University, where he studied the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
It was as if every living creature had an invisible radioactive clock in its cells.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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