Revelations waited for them like all the silent seconds on a digital alarm clock before the shrieking starts or else like a land mine.

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She kept the alarm clock on the dresser wound, and accurate to the minute by the wireless morning and evening.

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Most importantly, because Apple did not put an alarm clock app on the iPad.

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It has been suggested that the smartphone could possibly render alarm clocks and point-and-shoot digital cameras obsolete, as people use the alarm clock functions on their phones more frequently and the cameras in these devices continue to improve.

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That alarm clock is a horribly mean beacon on a Monday morning.

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How are they supposed to demonstrate their fitness for more responsibility by doing simple things like buying an alarm clock and showing up for work on time every morning?

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The alarm clock could show a traffic report and reminders of items on a personal schedule for the day.

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Google's Joe Britt showed an alarm clock that can be set, using a mobile application, to turn on lights and music in the bedroom at a specified time.

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On a recent morning, Mr. Suleiman, a 36-year-old father of three, retrieved an alarm clock that he received with his furnished apartment.

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