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adjective

ˈdā-lē How to pronounce daily (audio)
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as in continuous
occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day they made their daily stop at the coffee shop after work to relax before dinner

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noun

British
as in servant
a person hired to perform household or personal services hired a daily to come in each morning to cook and clean

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Recent Examples of daily
Adjective
Many Venezuelans like her want a change of government and an improvement to their daily lives. — Catherine Ellis, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Because of those factors, and perhaps coupled with my love for the game and fervor for the assignment, the daily grind never felt like that at all. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
Subscribe here to our daily On Politics newsletter for news straight from halls of the Capitol. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Theirs is not a once-a-year public observance, but a private daily reckoning that cannot be understood by anyone who hasn’t experienced it. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for daily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daily
  1. continuous
  2. servant
  3. recurrent
  4. housekeeper
  5. day-to-day
  6. domestic
  7. continual
  8. steward
Adjective
  • The French broadcaster said the cyberattack involved forcing a continuous defrost cycle, setting temperatures to 50°C (122°F).
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The jean is enhanced with a continuous one-piece fly dating to 1877 and is made with a single-needle construction, with no serger or overlock method.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of continuous
Noun
  • The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Astonishingly, a servant’s wages amounted to only $3,750 to $4,500 per year.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of servant
Adjective
  • Security training Current TSA regulations require recurrent security training for flight crew and cabin crew members, which includes self-defense training and exercises on how to handle a hijacking.
    — Jeff Price, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The second, given by Stille, enlisted a recurrent theme in Eco’s fiction — how falsehood often trumps truth — to discuss the crisis of liberal democracy and its institutions.
    — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of recurrent
Noun
  • Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • By tightening those subplots, the series focuses more by design on exploring the inner lives of Cathy, Adam and Lee (Hoon Lee) — the Trask’s cook and housekeeper who becomes a second parent of sorts to Charles’ twin boys, Cal and Aron.
    — Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of housekeeper
Adjective
  • Donald is taking on a support role with BBC Studios alongside his day-to-day duties running his Cosmopolitan Pictures indie.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Please know your day-to-day work and processes won’t change immediately.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of day-to-day
Noun
  • Jason Buckley’s Ultimate Media Group (UMG) is launching international sales at the TIFF market and is co-repping domestic with CAA Media Finance.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Studiocanal is also handling worldwide sales, and is co-representing domestic with WME Independent.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of domestic
Adjective
  • Andersen sees energy storage, which would allow for continual energy supply even when the wind isn’t blowing, as the wind sector’s next big opportunity.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But that continual branching makes trees remarkably resilient.
    — Antonia Bowring, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of continual
Noun
  • This new crop of gadgets, however, asks you to be a more active steward of other people’s privacy.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
  • All itineraries include an overnight stay, 24-hour steward service, meals with a sommelier’s choice of wine and unlimited soft drinks, and transfers.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2026
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“Daily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daily. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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