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solstice

[sol-stis, sohl-] / ˈsɒl stɪs, ˈsoʊl- /


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After the winter solstice this past weekend, every day brings a little more sunlight.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Thousands of revellers gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire on Sunday morning to welcome the sunrise on the winter solstice - the shortest day of the year.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

Consider the original Yule Logs, massive oak trunks that Vikings burned for the duration of the Midwinter solstice to rebuke the long darkness.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025

The solstice is actually a specific moment, not a whole day and in 2025 it happens at 15:03 GMT on 21 December.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Using some vertically plumb object continued . at Alexandria on the day of the solstice, he measured angle a, and therefore angle P, at 7.2 degrees.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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