sundial
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Adorned with decorative finials, it looms, in a certain light, like an enormous sundial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
A mere 12% of Americans actively favor the sundial shuffle, 47% are opposed and 40% are neutral, according to a 2025 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2026
You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
The name gujeolpan refers to nine ingredients on a plate, with eight colorful vegetables or proteins sliced thinly and arrayed around the edge of plate, much like a mouth-watering sundial.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Cross the orbit of 6446 Lomberg, the asteroid named in honor of his contributions to science, and sail by Mars, where the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers bear sundials he helped design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
For instance, Grant County operated entirely by a system of sundials and groundhogs; in Pulaski County it was just 7:45 p.m. all the time.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 2, 2017
Mr. McLemore’s passion for sundials and timepieces, and his staggering talent in building and repairing them, was central to the story.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
This is the kind of time indicated by sundials, and it probably represents the earliest measure of time used by ancient civilizations.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
