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It’s important to note that long before the tick-tock and chiming of clocks, our ancestors — you know, that raggedy bunch dressed in animal fur — had to adapt to seasonal changes in daylight.

On March 22, the New York Times published a lengthy and revealing tick-tock account of the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute Trump.

From Salon

Ultimately, the researchers found that the tick-tock of the quasar clocks behaved just as Einstein’s relativity predicts.

The Jan. 6 committee provided the nation with a definitive account of the violence that day, providing critical background information, a blow-by-blow account of the inciting acts, a tick-tock of the riot itself, and a lengthy epilogue covering the players’ reactions.

From Slate

"I understand how so many people are impatient with the criminal justice system, which seems to move very slowly that I think we're finally at tick-tock for Donald Trump," Vance replied before noting multiple investigations into Trump's actions and suggesting possible defenses his lawyers will likely employ.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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