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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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The film follows a boy who rebuilds his late mother from her texts, voice, and diary, and what wakes up never gives an order.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Literary Agency, Germany The debut novel explores family grief and trauma, generational friction, and memory through a narrative puzzle emerging from diaries and testimonies.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of diary

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Our findings, published in the journal Menopause, reveal a major gap in how clinicians capture basic information about women’s health.

— Audrey Hendricks, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
In the final frame, Verney writes in his journal the wild hope that there may still be other survivors on the planet, perhaps safe on some island in the South Indian Ocean.

— Eileen Hunt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

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