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The pop-up will be different each day, with curators planning to add new aspects to the library as the countdown to Tortured Poets gets shorter.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2024
Beecher arrived in Brooklyn in the late eighteen-forties, just as the nation was entering the final countdown to the Civil War.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
As the countdown to summer begins, some are feeling the burn in their wallets as inflation continues to affect everything from gas prices to food.
—Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
The final countdown to the total eclipse that will be taking place on Monday, April 8, has begun.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Forecasters will continue to update the cloud cover forecasts, as the countdown ticks closer to the solar eclipse.
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
That is, his team would meet patients at local hospitals and perform ECPR there; once they were connected to the ECMO machine — the countdown clock now stopped — patients would be driven to the university hospital to receive specialized I.C.U. care.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
After Katelyn initiated a countdown, the parents cut into the cake and were thrilled to find blue inside.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
The countdown does not seem so terrifying with such a support system in place—and having a network of friends doesn’t help delineate what separates humans from the aliens.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2024
Beecher arrived in Brooklyn in the late eighteen-forties, just as the nation was entering the final countdown to the Civil War.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
As the countdown to summer begins, some are feeling the burn in their wallets as inflation continues to affect everything from gas prices to food.
—Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2024
The final countdown to the total eclipse that will be taking place on Monday, April 8, has begun.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Forecasters will continue to update the cloud cover forecasts, as the countdown ticks closer to the solar eclipse.
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
That is, his team would meet patients at local hospitals and perform ECPR there; once they were connected to the ECMO machine — the countdown clock now stopped — patients would be driven to the university hospital to receive specialized I.C.U. care.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
After Katelyn initiated a countdown, the parents cut into the cake and were thrilled to find blue inside.
—Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
The countdown does not seem so terrifying with such a support system in place—and having a network of friends doesn’t help delineate what separates humans from the aliens.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
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countdown
noun
count·down
ˈkau̇nt-ˌdau̇n 
: the process of counting off backward in fixed units (as seconds) the time remaining before an event (as the launching of a rocket)
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