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tick
noun as in clicking sound; one beat
Example Sentences
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
The latest monthly jobs report, published Sept. 5, showed that employers created 22,000 new jobs in August and that the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%.
As almost everybody ticked off one year or another in high school, all eyes turned to Brewer.
Already, inflation is ticking up, and voters are once again agitated by the cost of living, recently electing Democrats who ran on the issue of affordability in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City.
Walt Disney delivered an underwhelming September-quarter, with a tick down in revenue compared with last year.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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