clocklike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of clocklike
Example Sentences
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In “How Black Music Took Over the World,” Mr. Gibbs uses clocklike diagrams to illustrate “many of the aspects of Black music that are hard to notice, or get hidden, using Western notation.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Like many hipsters and countless musicians of the late 1950s, he favored Cuban-collared shirts, wide-legged, pleated trousers, slip-on loafers and blouson jackets — a style that men’s wear labels like Prada revisit with clocklike regularity.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
To detect the spiraling pairs, observers train large radio telescopes on dozens of pulsars—collapsed stars emitting radio beams that, as the pulsar spins, appear as pulses with clocklike regularity.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021
The clocklike graphic measures, in real time, the chances of different candidates winning in a particular caucus or primary.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2020
Behind him, the clocklike sound of his father’s work resumed, an echo to the call of the bell.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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