almanac

Farmers are dealing with enough grim news to fill an almanac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

In 1576, a few years before Bruno’s Oxford lecture, Digges had published a sixth edition of his father Leonard’s perpetual almanac, A Prognostication Everlasting.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Among farmers, the almanacs are highly valued and respected because of their long history, says Steve Hu, an agricultural climatologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023

Astrology endured only in the publication of monthly or annual almanacs.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 24, 2023

Those who need some calming reading at this point in time should consider The Old Farmer’s Almanac — which informs the Beltway that the brand new 2023 almanacs are “shipping now.”

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2023

But the weather judges didn’t agree any more than the almanacs did, so in the end Father would go out and frown at the sky a dozen times a day, and then make a guess.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier