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- adjective Without a
clock or clocks.
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Examples
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I made a clockless circuit, but the more industrious out there may want to try making something with a little more power.
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"I think we really have moved to a clockless day," Mr. Costello said.
Late-Night Sales on a Roll for U.S. Fast-Food Outlets Julie Jargon 2012
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Add to this the dictates of "green" parenting — homemade baby food, cloth diapers, a cocoon of clockless, unscheduled time — and you have our new ideal.
Mother MadnessSpend every moment with your child? Make your own baby food and use cloth diapers? Erica Jong 2010
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A clockless atmosphere will apparently encourage a state of meditative interest in the workings of the postal service, without distracting with the sense of time's fleeting passage.
Boing Boing 2007
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Condemned to an inexplicable blend of No Exit and Groundhog Day, he believes he must spend eternity "Retelling my own story to myself round the clock in a clockless world, lurking disembodied in this memory grotto."
Steven G. Kellman: Indignation Review: Philip Roth Does the 1950s 2008
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And I would feel quite panicky if I were to find myself clockless.
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What clockless hours passed, what weeks and months?
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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What clockless hours passed, what weeks and months?
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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What clockless hours passed, what weeks and months?
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Here, the first indications of day were in the knockers-up with their peashooters aimed at the windows of clockless clients, the water carts sluicing down the streets, the milk carts rattling down the cobblestones, and the strong smell of yeast from a bakery.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women King, Laurie R. 1995
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