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tick past

verb

Definitions

  1. To continue over time.

    • The years just continue to tick past.
    • The bad election results kept coming in, ticking past me one by one on the bottom of the television screen.
    • Me, I ain't going anywhere / Just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here / Oh yeah, I watch the people go ticking past

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