See tick-tock in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 March 22, Ben West, “This 835-Year-Old English Manor Needs Some Modern Love”, in The New York Times:",
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"text": "2020: \"Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy\" by Jordan Weissmann on Slate\nA few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses."
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