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Discover LudwigThe phrase "keeps time" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to mean that something is able to accurately measure or record time. For example, "This wall clock keeps time perfectly."
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Marco Buccelli, a drummer and her musical partner, keeps time on the snare.
A lot of people say the conductor keeps time, and that's true to an extent.
Meanwhile, an array of digital clocks keeps time in twelve different time zones.
The sway of young prostitutes and a couple dancing in a nightclub, a tiny baby nestled between them, keeps time.
A clock keeps time by holding back the pull of a weight, controlling its unwinding spring, regulating the forces that would otherwise propel it forward.
That song title notwithstanding, "sensible" isn't the first adjective you might think to apply to a piece that keeps time to its own balmy beat.
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Walker couldn't keep time.
What device could keep time that precisely?
Meanwhile, Ben Thatcher does more than keep time.
"Most orchestras don't need anyone to keep time".
Life kept time to a nursing home's beat.
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