metronome

The young Broad's cricketing hero was Australia metronome Glenn McGrath, and his development was accelerated by a spell as an 18-year-old with Melbourne club Hoppers Crossing.

The night sky contains remarkably precise "cosmic clocks": pulsars, which are dense neutron stars that emit radio pulses at steady intervals, ticking like perfectly timed metronomes.

These are the bluebloods, the old money of the investment world, steady as a metronome and just as thrilling.

In between: Kershaw, a metronome of excellence every fifth day, and not nearly enough else.

Then he taught her to move when a metronome played.