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- noun Plural form of
time-killer (alternative spelling oftime killers ).
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Examples
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Apps, those wonderful little bits of software that turn your smartphone into a digital Swiss army knife, have been called the biggest time-killers in tech.
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Apps, those wonderful little bits of software that turn your smartphone into a digital Swiss army knife, have been called the biggest time-killers in tech.
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Apps, those wonderful little bits of software that turn your smartphone into a digital Swiss army knife, have been called the biggest time-killers in tech.
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Apps, those wonderful little bits of software that turn your smartphone into a digital Swiss army knife, have been called the biggest time-killers in tech.
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Three years after Apple reluctantly opened its iPhone to outside developers, apps have grown from time-killers into an ecosystem seen as a key to keeping consumers loyal to their phones.
The Rise of Apps, iPad and Android Andrew Dowell 2010
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Apps, those wonderful little bits of software that turn your smartphone into a digital Swiss army knife, have been called the biggest time-killers in tech.
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Lawrence Levine, program analyst, has witnessed a colleague spending much of his day on eBay, among other online time-killers.
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Lawrence Levine, program analyst, has witnessed a colleague spending much of his day on eBay, among other online time-killers.
Avoiding Conflicts, 2008
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Between the drives, dinners and other time-killers, one week slipped around with great rapidity; and we could hardly realize it when the colonel looked over his newspaper at breakfast and said:
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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These people about me, kind, gentle, correct, -- all their waking thoughts are devoted to little things -- fashionable trifles that last no longer than the hour in which they're born -- just time-killers.
Lahoma 1913
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