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clocklike

[ klok-lahyk ]

adjective

  1. highly systematic, precise, and dependable:

    The mail carrier arrives at noon with clocklike regularity.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of clocklike1

First recorded in 1735–45; clock 1 + -like
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Example Sentences

Jennifer Noda’s ominous clocklike metal device includes two jagged wooden pieces as hands, while Lisa Rosenstein reclaims a more insidious material, hand-knotting a shroud of clear plastic shreds to luminous effect.

Like many hipsters and countless musicians of the late 1950s, he favored Cuban-collared shirts, wide-legged, pleated trousers, slip-on loafers and blouson jackets — a style that men’s wear labels like Prada revisit with clocklike regularity.

Like many hipsters and countless musicians of the late 1950s, he favored Cuban-collared shirts, wide-legged, pleated trousers, slip-on loafers and blouson jackets — a style that men’s wear labels like Prada revisit with clocklike regularity.

The slowly turning clocklike wheel suggests the toll it takes, slowly grinding our world into atoms.

To detect the spiraling pairs, observers train large radio telescopes on dozens of pulsars—collapsed stars emitting radio beams that, as the pulsar spins, appear as pulses with clocklike regularity.

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