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
  • The shop offers several book clubs, events and even books for rent for book clubs.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Advent Calendar Storybook Collection On Sale 20% off The budding bookworm will enjoy flipping through 24 Sesame Street mini books.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of books
Noun
  • Gates, who now stewards the photographic archives and periodicals of the Johnson Publishing Company, has exhibited it in different forms.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
  • When word spread that the Chief Librarian of the Army was paying a visit, soldiers rushed to request their favorite periodicals and book genres.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of periodicals
Noun
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Their case was supported by the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL), whose member newspapers account for approximately 97% of Norwegian newspaper circulation.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of newspapers
Noun
  • Two of the world’s leading medical journals published key studies this week that shed even more light on how ADHD impacts adults.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The library used to house thousands of books, journals, and reports that employees could use to learn, research, and explore ideas — much like The Garage.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of journals
Noun
  • Place it in an entryway to toss pet necessities for easy access and visibility, or in a living area to corral books and magazines.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Today, the magazines are clutching to the cliff edge like Mufasa.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of magazines
Noun
  • Existing approaches have typically relied on relatively bulky energy-harvesting devices sutured onto organs, which have struggled to generate practically useful amounts of power.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The tubular organs roll back far enough to gaze upwards through transparent tissue in its head to hunt for prey.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of organs
Noun
  • Earlier this year, France Télévisions struck a deal to bring about 20,000 hours of content a year to YouTube, including national and local news bulletins plus its flagship current-affairs and investigative magazines.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of bulletins

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