sundial
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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
There are secrets, a garden replete with a sundial and creepy statues and a house that traps its residents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Together, the panels make up an analemmatic sundial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
"I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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
Other early sundials measured time by the length of a stick’s shadow as the sun moved across the sky rather than by the movement of the shadow across the base, Gautschy says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 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
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
Werner’s favorite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
