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alarm clock

noun as in clock that wakes sleeper

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"The alarm clock generation is now being replaced by an anxiety generation," Anderson told a press conference, adding that people should be going to work instead of "staying at home all day".

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However analogue clocks will need switching manually, especially important if you are relying on an old-fashioned alarm clock to wake you up.

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Sunrise alarm clocks can help with that too - they mimic daylight and start gradually getting brighter before they ring.

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Documents submitted to court during Zou's trial show he searched online for "hidden camera" and "electric alarm clock camera" on the same day and made purchases on eBay of surveillance equipment.

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“He let me have the insides of an alarm clock ... that was the beginning of it.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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