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  2. Tempus fugit - Wikipedia

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    An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".

  3. List of Latin phrases (T) - Wikipedia

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    time, devourer of all things: Also "time, that devours all things", literally: "time, gluttonous of things", edax: adjectival form of the verb edo to eat. From Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15, 234-236. tempus fugit: Time flees. Time flies. From Virgil's Georgics (Book III, line 284), where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus. A common sundial motto.

  4. Time Flies - Wikipedia

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    Time Flies By, a 2012 album by Country Joe McDonald "Time Flies By (When You're the Driver of a Train)", a 1985 song by Half Man Half Biscuit from Back in the DHSS "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana", a humorous example of syntactic ambiguity

  5. Military Aircraft HM-1 - Wikipedia

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    After its first flight on October 18, 1936, Hawks flew "Time Flies", from Hartford, Connecticut, to Miami, Florida, on April 13, 1937, in 4 hours and 55 minutes. [1] He then flew to Newark Airport , New Jersey, in 4 hours and 21 minutes, but bounced on landing at Newark, and broke a wooden spar in the right wing with other spars also damaged.

  6. Talk : Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

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    And technicality has nothing to do here. I do know that a crow flies in a straight path, "as the crow flies", but it is "straight as an arrow", not "straight as an arrow flies". Also '"Time" flies like and arrow' is not the same sentence as 'Time flies like an arrow', if you want to dig linguistics here. And so on.

  7. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for ...

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    Move over, Wordle and Connections—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on ...

  8. The Most Popular Baby Boy Names of 2025 Are Really ... - AOL

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    Cowboy Names Go Next-Level. Call it the Yellowstone effect. "One of the biggest trends we’ll see for baby boy names in 2025 are 'Country Rebrand' names," says Sophie Kihm, editor-in-chief of ...

  9. Hourglass - Wikipedia

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    German half-hour sand glass, first quarter of the 16th century, bronze-gilt and silver-gilt, height: 8.3 cm, diameter: 8.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A winged hourglass as a literal depiction of the Latin phrase tempus fugit ("time flies") An hourglass in use, 2015