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Recent Examples of water clock
Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks.
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Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
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
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
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
Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 9 Oct. 2025
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
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
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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In 2007, as the 20-year anniversary loomed, an alarm clock went off in my gut.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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This smart alarm clock makes getting up — and going to bed — a little easier.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As mentioned in an earlier column, nature’s time clock seems to be a little ahead this spring.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Generally speaking, the twice-a-year daylight saving time clock changes are unpopular.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Once started, the toy acts essentially like a grandfather clock, which also happens to be that one co-worker who drops by your cubicle for a chat.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Just visit the store's 240-year-old grandfather clock.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which could test the limits of the Standard Model and even search for elusive dark matter.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Internet Time Service Facility in Boulder lost power Wednesday afternoon, disrupting the agency’s atomic clock, spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025
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During Milan Design Week last April, the brand unveiled the 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,
16 Feb. 2026
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This wagon is a German cuckoo clock with a screw loose, and as endearing as a house cat knocking a glass vase off the table.—
Jesus R. Garcia,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Like sand through the hourglass, so too go the dumplings of the Denver Post’s annual food bracket.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
11 Mar. 2026
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In the prelude, the two main characters sit across from each other at a plain table, and Isolde turns over an hourglass.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
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 6 Apr. 2026.
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