Clocks
Clocks noun - European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage.
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Devices
Devices noun - An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.
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Other "devices" include songbirds that sing recorded songs (they don't sound like parrots, though) or act as alarm clocks.
Source: Literature / Rough Draft - The increase in internet and cellular connected devices is leading to most of them always showing the same (correct) time, as many of them periodically connect to, and adjust their own clocks by, atomic clocks that provide time accurate to less than a second.
Source: Implausible Synchrony
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