tick-tock
n. A news story that recounts events in chronological order.

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"I sat in a maple chair by the president's phone, taking notes for the 'tick-tock' accounts of the decision-making process that all the major newspapers would be writing that night."
—George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human

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