clocklike
Example Sentences
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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
Time cells fire at successive moments but do not track time in a simple clocklike fashion.
From Scientific American • Jan. 14, 2020
But Michael Worobey, a disease geneticist at the University of Arizona, said he found the new study’s findings “robust” because the genetic sequences were long and had what he called “a clear, clocklike signal.”
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2016
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
