days

noun

Definition of daysnext
plural of day
1
as in daytimes
the hours of light between one night and the next during the day, we like to go play ball in the park

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2
as in times
an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing the brief but glorious day of the clipper ship

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3
as in mornings
the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance at the break of day I was relieved to realize that I had survived another night in the wilderness

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Recent Examples of days The timing of his start Saturday, three days before the Midsummer Classic, suggested as much. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026 Cholowsky visited Chicago for a few days in early June, talking to coaches and executives, hanging out with players and listening to Jerry Reinsdorf’s baseball stories. — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2026 Unlike some previous deaths involving federal immigration officers, few photos or videos surrounding the shooting have emerged publicly in the days since Salgado Araujo's death. — Arkansas Online, 11 July 2026 Rayfield also asked a state circuit court judge to delay the closing of the deal by 60 days so that his office could review the documents. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 11 July 2026 Meta received three days of backlash to learn exactly where the line is on likeness. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026 The late supreme leader was laid to rest at the shrine of Imam Reza, Iran’s holiest Shia Muslim site on Thursday, marking the end of six days of public mourning ceremonies. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 11 July 2026 Ironically, the comments that evidently angered Adebayo stem from screenshots of an Instagram direct message conversation shared on X in recent days that show a profile seemingly run by Herro showing some resentment toward Adebayo. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026 It’s been blistering in New York City, with temperatures registering in the high 90s on successive days, then climbing to 100 degrees Thursday and mercilessly extending into the Fourth of July. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for days
  1. evenings
  2. times
  3. mornings
  4. ages
  5. sunrises
  6. periods
  7. dawns
  8. eras
Noun
  • Currently, the shift is forward in spring and back to standard time in fall as a way to give people more daylight time in the summer evenings.
    — Deepti Hajela, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • For cigar aficionados, the outdoor Cigar Terrace is the place to puff on a Havana from the bar’s humidor while listening to live jazz band performances in the evenings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2026
Definition of evenings
Noun
  • Because of climate, weather, acorn abundance (yes, really) and decisions about land use dating to colonial times, the bugs are indeed getting worse.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Compared with a commercial GPU running the same image-denoising task, the optical system delivered more than a hundred times faster inference while using only about one-ninth of the computational resources.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of times
Noun
  • However, the responsibilities of leading a large constitutional office required me to balance my schedule, including senior leadership meetings held on Tuesday mornings that often conflicted with BCC meetings.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026
  • Two mornings of heavy rains have seen rainfall totals climb rapidly.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Definition of mornings
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  • Their soft tissue powderized ages ago, and some bones are now missing, including all of the princesses’ skulls.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 July 2026
  • This summer, people of all ages are getting an opportunity to wade and cool off in the river at a downtown park.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of ages
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  • Airborne dust can produce hazy conditions, and can sometimes lead to colorful sunrises and sunsets.
    — Cheryl McCloud, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Looking ahead to early next week, some Saharan dust builds into DFW, causing some reduction in air quality, dusty skies and more colorful sunrises and sunsets.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Definition of sunrises
Noun
  • During periods of intense rainfall, the risk of flooding increases, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone areas.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • Its symbols represent a mathematical formula relating the time periods of celestial bodies’ motions in the sky.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
Definition of periods
Noun
  • Morning dawns gray and dismal, but the rain has almost ended.
    — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.
    — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of dawns
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  • Freier’s email said plans originally sold in the 3G and 4G eras had stricter restrictions on smartphone and hotspot data, little or no international roaming, and a video resolution cap of 480p.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
  • Once a landmark that served as Charlotte’s prominent sanctuary for Black nightlife during the segregation and civil rights eras, the Excelsior Club now stands as a lost piece of history after a decade without use.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2026
Definition of eras

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