stopwatch
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The Reduce’s big brother — the original Speedmaster — was introduced by Omega in 1957 as a racing chronograph, designed with a tachymetre bezel, a face with multiple dials and a stopwatch function.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is, after all, what it takes to be part of M11 Track Club, where the emphasis is on fun until the stopwatch starts.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bedsheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
I may be wrong about this, I didn’t have a stopwatch, but Ms. Hynes does receive top billing over Ms. Purvis in each episode’s opening credits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
And with his stopwatch in his hand corrected to the astronomical clock in the shop, Father conceded that the first stroke of the English clock time after time coincided with the hour.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Swimming coaches won’t have to rely on stopwatches.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
In the church, Ferrari and his workers have their stopwatches out to time the Maserati.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Even among the irrepressible talents of his co-stars, Perry stood out, for a rubbery, heedless way with physical comedy and a split-second timing that most stopwatches would envy.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Discovering how workers could perform more efficiently often meant timing their movements with stopwatches to make sure they did not attach parts or move levers inefficiently.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Unable to catch him on their stopwatches, some of them began to circulate old rumors that Seabiscuit was lame.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
