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sundial

[suhn-dahy-uhl, -dahyl] / ˈsʌnˌdaɪ əl, -ˌdaɪl /




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You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

As I squeezed the pedal harder, the animated speedometer—designed a bit like an Aztec sundial, with spiky points blooming around the center—grew in radiance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 25, 2025

Place that shade on a sundial and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex could time her bakes to it with the utmost accuracy.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

“Our ancestors, always hurried,” she writes in “Angel in the Forest,” “left little evidence of their existence, if one discounts intangibles, a sundial, an apple a day, an angel in the forest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Here was Ahmad doing his prayers, posing beside a sundial Babi and he had built when he was twelve.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini




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