correct time

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Only cells containing proteins that switched at the correct time continued to divide.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

And then I became of age, which was 5, and that was the correct time for me to be introduced to it and I loved it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025

The lights will come back on later, when correct time will be displayed.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2022

There’s a point in your working career when Social Security, and when would be the correct time to begin collecting it, becomes a question at the top of your list of retirement decisions.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2020

I was tired, sleepy; I did not want to look at the watch again, but I was satisfied that, on the whole, I had given him the correct time.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright