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
Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
As part of their daily (diurnal) pattern, melatonin levels must fall to support waking up and reduce daytime sleepiness.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2025
Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
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Adjective
The region's cool climate, high diurnal temperature range, and stony, well-draining soils are ideal for enhancing the aromatic profile and maintaining the grape’s natural acidity.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
As part of their daily (diurnal) pattern, melatonin levels must fall to support waking up and reduce daytime sleepiness.
—Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 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
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Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
27 July 2025
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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.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
27 July 2025
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How accurate is the Farmers' Almanac? Farmers' Almanac is an annual American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818, providing long-range weather predictions for the U.S. and Canada.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr (1957) $16 $19 now 16% off This used to be a proper country, where numerous humor writers regularly published in mainstream periodicals their gentle, relatable, and cutting musings about the foibles of modern life.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
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President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 July 2025
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According to Healthcare Workers Watch, a Palestinian non-governmental organization that has been cited in medical journals and international media reports, Sultan was the seventieth health-care worker killed in the Gaza Strip in the past fifty days alone.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
19 July 2025
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In images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescope in Chile’s Atacama desert, researchers have done just that, according to a study published in the journal Nature.—
Rudy Molinek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
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The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes.—
Forbes Books Press Release Official,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The half-giant Hagrid features in every Harry Potter book and is one of the first characters to appear in The Philosopher’s Stone.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
15 July 2025
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But as Jennifer Levasseur wrote for Smithsonian magazine in 2019, the franchise’s branding and merchandising campaigns—through the sale of toys, figurines and eventually video games—helped secure the franchise’s financial success and inspired its global fandom.—
Christian Thorsberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 July 2025
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Hurwitz is the executive editor of the online classical-music magazine ClassicsToday.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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“Diurnal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diurnal. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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