round-the-clock

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Recent Examples of round-the-clock The process involved medication and round-the-clock pumping. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025 She was moved to John Peter Smith Hospital on Feb. 15 after being put on round-the-clock medical watch in the jail for an unspecified amount of time. Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Mar. 2025 Sell has called the round-the-clock needs of data centers a good fit for small reactors. Ben Geman, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025 Plus, there’s the ripple effect—caregivers dropping jobs to handle round-the-clock care, racking up billions in lost work, plus burnout that hits their own health. Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for round-the-clock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for round-the-clock
Adjective
  • Weather-dependent sources of electricity predictably prove to be a poor match for the around-the-clock energy needs of data centers, much less homes and businesses.
    Terry Jarrett, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • But with their mom no longer trusted to provide that and the shelter unable to offer around-the-clock care, the authorities sought help from outside.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2014, the Economic Policy Institute found that the real hourly wages of residential building workers remained 4.2 percent below their 2009 levels — even though wages in the rest of the private sector had largely recovered.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Average hourly earnings increased 0.3% on the month, in line with the forecast, while the annual rate of 3.8% was 0.1 percentage point below the estimate and the lowest level since July 2024.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In relatively lean times the budget lobbying grows even more intense — a cyclic phenomenon now playing out as politicians wrestle with multibillion-dollar shortfalls.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In relatively lean times the budget lobbying grows even more intense — a cyclic phenomenon now playing out as politicians wrestle with multi-billion-dollar shortfalls.
    Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Round-the-clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/round-the-clock. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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