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tick past en · VERB
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(intransitive, of events, qualifier:time or time-keeping devices, transitive) 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
2008, Nick Cave, “Albert Goes West”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
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