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Recent Examples of water clock
The first sundials and water clocks were determined to have been used in 1200 B.C. by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, Timothée could — nay, should: ➽ Get a pork tenderloin sandwich the size of your head
➽ Visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library
➽ Peep the big water clock at the Children’s Museum
➽ Drive all the way down to Bloomington, IN and check out Tibetan Cultural Center.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2025
His intricate water clocks and automata were not only practical but also visually appealing.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks.
—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
For example, Timothée could — nay, should: ➽ Get a pork tenderloin sandwich the size of your head
➽ Visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library
➽ Peep the big water clock at the Children’s Museum
➽ Drive all the way down to Bloomington, IN and check out Tibetan Cultural Center.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2025
His intricate water clocks and automata were not only practical but also visually appealing.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks.
—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for water clock
Noun
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Looming over camp, Black Brushy Mountain was outlined by the early morning glow when the alarm clock rattled me from a sound sleep.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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Ignoring your alarm clock will become a daily happening bordering on the opulent.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.—
John Seabrook
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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In one of the spy spoof’s great running gags, his resentful Agent 13 would pop up in mailboxes, grandfather clocks, fire hydrants, planters, etc. while on uncomfortable undercover assignments.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
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One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Aug. 2025
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Weiss developed a precise atomic clock, and was also a pioneer in the measurement of a cosmic fossil called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), leftover radiation from an event just after the Big Bang.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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But scientists who track and operate atomic clocks may be facing a bit of a predicament.—
James Powel,
Freep.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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In April during Milan Design Week, the brand unveiled the temporary Ephemeral Store on Via Montenapoleone, with cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance and the womenswear collection displayed in a room that is a replica of the Hall of Mirrors in the royal Palace of Versailles.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Featuring a sleeveless crew neck, high waist, and pleated design, the dress creates a flattering, hourglass shape.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Aug. 2025
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Ballooning above and below the Milky Way's center like a massive hourglass, the mysterious Fermi bubbles loom large over our galaxy.—
Brandon Specktor,
Space.com,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The first sundials and water clocks were determined to have been used in 1200 B.C. by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Days sometimes may feel like mere hours when times are good, and the moments may barely tick by in a dull day, but the passage of Earth around the sun hasn’t changed in an easily measurable way since humans first started using sundials.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
31 July 2025
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“Water clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/water%20clock. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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