like clockwork
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Your attorney should coordinate your will, beneficiary designations, charitable gifts and executor stipulations so they all work like clockwork.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
The busy operation has to run like clockwork, as about 200 lorries will arrive to collect products every day.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I’m not sure what would provoke anyone to tune in, but like clockwork, the viewership billowed to the thousands.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Much of the spice’s charm is overshadowed by an ever-popular pumpkin spice craze, which peaks like clockwork at the start of autumn.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
The hard labor of spring planting and fall harvesting is followed, like clockwork, by the slower pace of summer and winter.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
