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daybook

noun

ˈdā-ˌbu̇k

Definition of daybook

as in diary

a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use each night, before bed, she jots down her thoughts in a daybook

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Recent Examples of daybook For others, a journal may double as a daybook, calendar, and catch-all for thoughts jotted down during a meeting or while waiting to pick up the kids at school. — Kate Donovan, Martha Stewart, 2 Feb. 2026 Pruitt’s remarks at the meeting were listed on his public schedule and described as being open to the press on a federal daybook of events. — Washington Post, 22 May 2018

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In the diaries, Pavese casts his impotence into a kind of worldview.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
The memoir, out April 27, 2027, via Penguin Random House, traces Zauner’s year in South Korea, connecting with her family in Seoul and learning Korean in the hopes of reading her late mother’s diary.

— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of diary

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In one of these journals, called Notebook B, there is an incidental sketch, a few scratched lines like the barren twigs of a winter tree.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
The research, published in the scientific journal Microbial Cell, examined the effect of caffeine on fission yeast cells.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 21 Sep. 2026

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