1
: made for a particular day
—used of an item not specified on the regular menu
soup du jour
2
: popular, fashionable, or prominent at a particular time
the buzzword du jour
Examples of du jour in a Sentence
Our soup du jour is chicken noodle.
Long hair was the style du jour.
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The announcement landed shortly after Rodrigo, in rollout fashion du jour, wiped her Instagram and took out a billboard with the album title on Los Angeles’ Melrose Avenue.
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Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
Many cookbook publishers insist such topics don’t sell, and while celebrity chefs and the diet du jour still dominate bestseller lists, this past season ushered in a wave of new titles immersed in the cuisines of Somalia, Sudan, Cambodia, Pakistan, and El Salvador, to name a few.
—Jamie Feldmar, Saveur, 15 Apr. 2026
Snapchat would, in fact, be superseded as the political-comms fad du jour, but Democratic hand-wringing about the Party’s visibility in a fragmented attention economy has never gone out of style, and Swalwell has often been seen as an exemplar of how to be everywhere, all at once.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
What will be the crisis du jour tomorrow?
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
Many cookbook publishers insist such topics don’t sell, and while celebrity chefs and the diet du jour still dominate bestseller lists, this past season ushered in a wave of new titles immersed in the cuisines of Somalia, Sudan, Cambodia, Pakistan, and El Salvador, to name a few.
—Jamie Feldmar, Saveur, 15 Apr. 2026
Snapchat would, in fact, be superseded as the political-comms fad du jour, but Democratic hand-wringing about the Party’s visibility in a fragmented attention economy has never gone out of style, and Swalwell has often been seen as an exemplar of how to be everywhere, all at once.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
What will be the crisis du jour tomorrow?
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Du jour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/du%20jour. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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