almanac
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It’s hard to imagine any other director taking the time to become an almanac.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Sporadic dialogue, like a wedding speech and a game show segment, is intended to represent an almanac of data, submitted by paying members of the public, that creates “the definition” of humanity.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The catalogs are listed in alphabetical order and none are produced by the venerable almanac, which was founded in 1792.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Although neither almanac will share the details of its formula, both are open about what goes into their predictions.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
Impulsively, she flipped open the almanac to the appropriate diagram.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
They read popular almanacs, and learned and admired the intricacies of orreries—mechanical models of the celestial sphere—that they flocked to view at numerous colleges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Both almanacs claim authority from the long heritage of the formulas they use.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
Astrology endured only in the publication of monthly or annual almanacs.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023
Farmers also once relied upon these sayings, some of which were printed in almanacs.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
He was summoned to Graz, in Austria, to teach secondary school mathematics, and began a little later to prepare astronomical and meteorological almanacs and to cast horoscopes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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