sundial
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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
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
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
"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
They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
