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noun

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Adjective
The monsoon generally involves daily patterns of mostly dry mornings with storms developing later in the day, with most of the heavy rain occurring in the afternoon and evening hours -- also known as a diurnal cycle. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025 Powerful diurnal shifts also add dimension. Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
The exhibition welcomes us into diurnal at the street-level, and leads us into the nocturnal in the downstairs galleries. Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for diurnal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diurnal
Adjective
  • 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.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • With over 110 million daily active users and a market cap of nearly $40 billion, Reddit is a giant in the social media world.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Studies on bohemianism tend to emphasize the primacy of cities, where radical and eclectic ideas were shared through newspapers, literary periodicals, coffeehouses, bars, cafés, bookstores, and art galleries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Written and directed by Mickey Reece (Climate of the Hunter, Mickey Reece’s Alien), Every Heavy Thing stars Josh Fadem (Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, 30 Rock) as a mild-mannered ad salesperson for an online periodical, who witnesses a murder and spirals into paranoia.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The comments were picked up by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, and CNN asked the two former US Navy officers to review that report and the video.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The chairman claimed his words had been taken out of context, but his comments were splashed across the back of the newspapers and caused a storm of controversy.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To avoid any issues but keep the memories, place any souvenir stamps in a travel journal.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The details of the team’s research were published in the journal Nano Energy.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After dropping 43 points against Golden State on Tuesday, Doncic somehow topped it, finishing with 49 points, 11 rebounds, and eight assists and etching his name in the history books for several reasons.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The sports books spend hundreds of millions on advertising annually, primarily during games, along with pregame and post-game shows, according to MediaRadar, which tracks and estimates ad spending.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Festival, which is the magazine’s signature event, was held in New York City and brought together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics, and medicine.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Kickstarter campaign will also debut the Fangoria Digital Archive, a fully searchable, indexed, interactive, remastered collection of the magazine’s complete original run (Issues 1–344).
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Diurnal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diurnal. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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