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  • noun Plural form of clockwork.

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Examples

  • Opening the back of my pocketwatch and watching the clockworks is always a thrill for me.

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  • I saw a wonderful science tool museum with clockworks from the 17th century, astrolabes, telephones from the turn of the last century, and suchlike, started as a collection by a local baron/scientist.

    Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen da_lj 2010

  • I saw a wonderful science tool museum with clockworks from the 17th century, astrolabes, telephones from the turn of the last century, and suchlike, started as a collection by a local baron/scientist.

    Kassel, Goslar, Hannover, more Göttingen da_lj 2010

  • The clockworks is a long way, in every way, from the White House, Fort Knox and the Vatican, but the winds that blow across the clockworks always wear a crazy grin.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • With the destruction of the clockworks, that is, at the end of time, all rituals will be personal and idiosyncratic, serving not to unify a community/cult in a common cause but to link each single individual with the universe in whatever manner suits him or her best.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • I liked it better than the first one, if only because I thought the world of Hellboy was a lot better realized here (despite the finale, the duel on clockworks, which is a direct lift from Miyazaki -- so was the Forest God sequence, come to think of it) and the special effects were employed with more wit.

    Electronic Cerebrectomy 2008

  • The stairs became a spiral here, worming their way up through the shrinking space, then on through an area with narrow platforms and square casements containing the clockworks, one facing each direction.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The foxtrot is not a flashy dance; its motor impulse is more akin to clockworks than, say, the hip-driven stampede nature of the samba.

    Stars That Truly Dance Sarah Kaufman 2010

  • From one moment to the next, "Cars 2" comes up with plenty of visual zingers: a Parisian marché aux pieces as in spare parts; a plunge into the giant clockworks of London's Big Bentley; a Japanese toilet designed to pamper any chassis; exotic cars galore, including such exotic lemons as the Pacer, the Gremlin and what the movie calls the Hugo.

    Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The stairs became a spiral here, worming their way up through the shrinking space, then on through an area with narrow platforms and square casements containing the clockworks, one facing each direction.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

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