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Examples
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He opened a bleary eye on the clock-radio beside the bed.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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That is, an alarm clock with a mini gong that gently wakes you from sleep instead of beeping like a regular digital alarm, or playing an annoying song like a cell phone or blasting news into your ear like a clock-radio or ringing like one of those old-fashioned round clocks with the bells on top.
How to Fall in Love 2010
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What you've here adumbrated is why I have my bedside clock-radio set to wake me to the Today programme.
Boaden Beats Her Own World Record Newmania 2008
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Here's the scene: It was late 1974, it was a tinny clock-radio, it was an utterly hypnotic song called "Killer Queen" -- and my life, destiny and especially taste were irrevocably changed.
Gregory Weinkauf: Freddie's Dead, Long Live Freddie: Dreading the Queen Movie 2010
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The piece of music we chose for our wedding when one of the cats turned on the clock-radio by walking over it one lazy Sunday morning sounded joyful.
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Here's the scene: It was late 1974, it was a tinny clock-radio, it was an utterly hypnotic song called "Killer Queen" -- and my life, destiny and especially taste were irrevocably changed.
Gregory Weinkauf: Freddie's Dead, Long Live Freddie: Dreading the Queen Movie 2010
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Here's the scene: It was late 1974, it was a tinny clock-radio, it was an utterly hypnotic song called "Killer Queen" -- and my life, destiny and especially taste were irrevocably changed.
Gregory Weinkauf: Freddie's Dead, Long Live Freddie: Dreading the Queen Movie Gregory Weinkauf 2010
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And it's not a problem at all for those who wake to the radio (though, of course, the point of this clock-radio its iPod functionality).
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: It's an iPod World 2009
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So, overall, the IP9 is a good, diversified clock-radio
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: It's an iPod World 2009
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It will also wake to a playlist, but not any playlist on your device - you have to create a playlist with a specific name ( "iHome"), the only one the clock-radio will recognize.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: It's an iPod World 2009
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