as in daily
occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day
a love as constant and certain as the diurnal tides
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as in periodical
a publication that appears at regular intervals
a collection of diurnals containing essays by preeminent 19th-century American writers and thinkers
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Recent Examples of diurnal
Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The diurnal predator is believed to primarily consume trout and salmon, though it has also been observed eating puffins, crabs and deer carcasses.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
The diurnal asymmetric warming of the earth has reversed course since 1991, with daytime temperatures rising faster than nighttime ones.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Izmir doesn’t have large diurnal shifts (the temperature difference between night and day) and without cooling periods, grapes can ripen faster and often lose acidity, which means those in Izmir are harvested almost 20 days earlier than the grapes in the inland Denizli province.
—Shana Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2023
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Adjective
This geographical feature funnels cool coastal winds into the Valley, creating a marked diurnal temperature variation.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The diurnal predator is believed to primarily consume trout and salmon, though it has also been observed eating puffins, crabs and deer carcasses.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
The diurnal asymmetric warming of the earth has reversed course since 1991, with daytime temperatures rising faster than nighttime ones.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Izmir doesn’t have large diurnal shifts (the temperature difference between night and day) and without cooling periods, grapes can ripen faster and often lose acidity, which means those in Izmir are harvested almost 20 days earlier than the grapes in the inland Denizli province.
—Shana Clarke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diurnal
Adjective
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Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Newsletter Go beyond the scoreboard Get the latest on L.A.'s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Similarly, Amos Kendall, the nation’s postmaster general, adopted an extreme states’ rights position and suppressed the periodicals in the interest of buttressing local mores.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Democrat and the Gazette even blamed the Black residents of Elaine for the violence and the Black periodicals the Chicago Defender and The Crisis (the NAACP’s magazine) for inciting racial hatred.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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The seed round was co-led by Sharp Alpha, a venture capital firm based in New York, and dmg ventures, the venture capital arm of DMGT, which owns the Daily Mail newspaper among other holdings.—
Tim Casey,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Sensational newspaper accounts later suggested the three men had starved to death in the boat after attempting to eat their life vests—a theory that was soon debunked.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 14, 2025, my planetary scientist colleagues and I tried to answer an age-old question: Where are all the carbonaceous chondrites?—
Patrick M. Shober,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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In the journal Science Advances, the researchers describe a series of tests showing that crows clearly had a sense of right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2025
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From her searching emerges a book that might be called biography, historiography, cultural criticism, manifesto, or all of the above—a memoir, in a sense, of the internet.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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Spiritual leaders say while the Muslim holy book, the Quran, is a main reference, their faith incorporates certain beliefs found in other religions, such as reincarnation.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
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And Phoebe Cleary Rudd, 29, has grown online hospitality magazine The Sauce to 600,000 monthly readers and is expanding into Club Sauce, an influencer marketing platform.—
Alexandra York,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Last week, the restaurant hosted a dinner party to celebrate the release of i-D magazine’s inaugural issue under new ownership.—
Laura Neilson,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Diurnal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diurnal. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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