mark time
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Trees can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Frances' periods mark time across the 12 episodes, measuring intervals underneath the flurry of going on holiday, resuming the school term, breaking up, making up.
From Salon ● May 24, 2022
The town even plays a centuries-old bugle call three times a day from its clock tower to mark time passing by.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
A halfhearted grad student’s relationship to school is a lot like Dani and Christian’s terrible couplehood—a great way to mark time while looking committed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019
But the very fact of my having become his carer served as a reminder that we weren’t there to mark time.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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