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Recent Examples of countdown
Written in collaboration with Pharrell Williams, The-Dream and Darius Dixon, the Grammy Award-winning artist's new song will start the 60-day countdown to her next birthday and the reissue of B'DAY.
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
4 July 2026
The countdown to kickoff and the constant chants solidify it.
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Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
Harry is expected to be in the UK for events related to the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games in Birmingham.
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Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
2 July 2026
With the first steel piles officially in the ground, the countdown to the plant’s 2029 operational debut is underway.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
4 July 2026
The countdown to kickoff and the constant chants solidify it.
—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
Harry is expected to be in the UK for events related to the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games in Birmingham.
—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
2 July 2026
With the first steel piles officially in the ground, the countdown to the plant’s 2029 operational debut is underway.
—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for countdown
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countdown
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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.
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Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.
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The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.
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But the issue Americans should be concerned with here really isn’t FIFA, which has entertained other similar overtures before, but rather its own sporting reputation.
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Acuff got off to a much better start after struggling to make shots in his summer league debut on Saturday.
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Belgium added to the lead early in the second half on a major error from goalie Matt Freese, who had given up just one goal in his first three starts.
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Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.
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The current ceasefire is likely a prelude to the next round of war.
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“Countdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countdown. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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