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diurnals

noun

plural of diurnal
as in books
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 diurnals During its 12-day journey, SE2 completed one full day-night diurnal cycle over New Mexico and three consecutive diurnals off the Brazilian coast. — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for diurnals
  1. books
  2. periodicals
  3. newspapers
  4. journals
  5. magazines
  6. organs
  7. bulletins
Noun
  • Most self-help books say anger and grudges are self-defeating — there’s that line everybody uses that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
    — Lane Brown, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Numerous books written by women who fled the FLDS community provide autobiographical and critical accounts of the group.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of books
Noun
  • Operating for nearly a century, Algani began in 1927 as a modest seller of newspapers, periodicals, and postcards before evolving into one of the city’s first international newsstands.
    — Eleonora Giordani, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
  • People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of periodicals
Noun
  • Beth Israel collected the desperate advertisements placed in the national newspapers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • No one, including TV networks, newspapers, radio and news websites, has stopped covering the president.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of newspapers
Noun
  • Her grandfather shows up in journals Steinbeck kept during the process of writing East of Eden.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The new standards, which were published in each group’s respective scientific journals, are meant to prevent common issues that contribute to the sobering figure above.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of journals
Noun
  • Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Liu’s mother would influence her middle son’s future art career in another important way, buying him books and magazines about art, some of which introduced him to the work of figures like Diego Rivera and Andy Warhol.
    — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of magazines
Noun
  • While jellyfish, an even more remote species, have two nervous systems, the findings suggest these two organs may have slowly grown close to each other.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This implies that our own hindbrain is already represented by an exclusive lineage of cells distinct from the forebrain and midbrain just three weeks after conception, roughly when other major organs like the heart are distinguishing themselves.
    — Mike McRae September 21, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of organs
Noun
  • Also on Wednesday, the BBC Sport unit told employees about plans to make redundancies and cut sports bulletins on its news channel.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Prospective intelligence automates the monitoring of payer bulletins, regulatory guidance and coding updates to identify what is supposed to change.
    — Terry Goertz, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of bulletins

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“Diurnals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diurnals. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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