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"ref": "2003, Tom Wilkins, The Demise of The Color War Captain, page 121",
"text": "He shuts off the engine, which ticks on mechanically, cooling down.",
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"ref": "2008, Ian Assersohn, First Time Bars - A Choral Singer's Handbook, page 6",
"text": "None of that should affect the beat, or pulse itself, which ticks on regardless.",
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"ref": "2017, Bryanna Bond, The Color Black, page 23",
"text": "The sun sets and the clock ticks on.",
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tick, on.; to continue ticking."
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"ref": "1912, Kate Everest, The Searchlight on the Throne: Reminiscences of an Ex-ambassador, page 132",
"text": "Slowly the moments ticked on; once he murmured the name of the girl he loved.",
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"ref": "1958, Ashes of Conflict, page 2",
"text": "Seconds ticked on.",
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"ref": "2011, Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch",
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"ref": "2013, Roy Abraham Varghese, The Missing Link, page 113",
"text": "Or we think of an absolute time which ticks on regardless of events, agents, causes and effects.",
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"text": "The day ticked on and it was soon time to head back.",
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"ref": "2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "As time ticked on, with 15 minutes remaining, Billy Gilmour side-footed at Gestsson after breaking into the box from a rare flash of incision.",
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"ref": "2012, Charles Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, page 68",
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"ref": "2014, Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, page 202",
"text": "In that web, my father's pacemaker and our broken human lives ticked on, not in a universe governed by a god whose rules were written on tablets and interpreted by male priests who'd never spent a day changing adult diapers or listening to the moans of a Nancy Cruzan.",
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"ref": "2015, Claire Collard, Footpaths on the Sea, page 82",
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},
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"ref": "1958, Ashes of Conflict, page 2",
"text": "Seconds ticked on.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2011, Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk on the Couch",
"text": "But the night ticked on and we soon missed Monk's cleaning.",
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},
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"text": "Or we think of an absolute time which ticks on regardless of events, agents, causes and effects.",
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},
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"text": "The day ticked on and it was soon time to head back.",
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},
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"ref": "2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "As time ticked on, with 15 minutes remaining, Billy Gilmour side-footed at Gestsson after breaking into the box from a rare flash of incision.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, page 202",
"text": "In that web, my father's pacemaker and our broken human lives ticked on, not in a universe governed by a god whose rules were written on tablets and interpreted by male priests who'd never spent a day changing adult diapers or listening to the moans of a Nancy Cruzan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Claire Collard, Footpaths on the Sea, page 82",
"text": "With the dumb, inchoate misery of a small child's inability to understand its situation or express bereavement, the relentless question ticked on, and on.",
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