as in daily
occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day
a love as constant and certain as the diurnal tides
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as in periodical
a publication that appears at regular intervals
a collection of diurnals containing essays by preeminent 19th-century American writers and thinkers
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Recent Examples of diurnal
Senior Newsroom Meteorologist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Feb. 2026
This doubling of the diurnal might happen once a year.
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Lauren Bostwick,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
The watery and stable microclimate within the caves long ago could have hosted microbial colonies, and today the caves are protected from the extreme conditions on Mars' surface, such as wildly different diurnal temperatures, dust storms and solar ultraviolet and cosmic-ray radiation.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Nov. 2025
Snow accumulations may be affected by diurnal trends and sun angle.
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Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Overnight lows will drop into the low 40s under clear skies, marking a 30-degree diurnal swing in some spots.
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Senior Newsroom Meteorologist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Feb. 2026
This doubling of the diurnal might happen once a year.
—
Lauren Bostwick,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
The watery and stable microclimate within the caves long ago could have hosted microbial colonies, and today the caves are protected from the extreme conditions on Mars' surface, such as wildly different diurnal temperatures, dust storms and solar ultraviolet and cosmic-ray radiation.
—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Nov. 2025
Snow accumulations may be affected by diurnal trends and sun angle.
—
Ca Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diurnal
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
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Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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The center’s resources—all free—include more than a million books and periodicals, with 400 terminals and 75 staff members available to help dig through them.
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Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high.
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Soldiers were deployed outside the Kampala offices of the Daily Monitor newspaper early Sunday.
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The Southern California Journalism Awards span print newspapers and magazines, TV, radio and digital news outlets as well as radio, podcasting and social media.
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The findings were published on Monday in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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The cockroaches were first reported in the United States in 1978 with infestations at military bases in Lathrop, California, and El Paso, Texas, the journal said.
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Author Robert Wright joins The Excerpt to talk about his new book.
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But a copy of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th anniversary book with 150 front pages from our 150 years.
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Mark Singer, who contributed to this magazine as a staff writer for fifty-two years, died of cancer, at Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan, not far from his apartment, on June 19th.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
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“Diurnal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diurnal. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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