countdown

Example Sentences

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For Quantinuum and its newly vocal backers, it seems the real countdown to that milestone has just begun.

From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026

Harry, 41, is visiting to mark the one-year countdown towards next year's Invictus Games, launched by the prince in 2014 for wounded veterans.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

The countdown to insolvency is accelerating — and the rules of retirement planning just broke.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

Like the eight-second countdown after a goalkeeper has caught the ball, the referee will visibly make a count by moving an arm up and down.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

We have a schedule worked out, sort of a countdown, and by early June we will be out of this cave, and out of Mr. Fitzgibbon’s barn, I hope forever.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien