as in servants
a person hired to perform household or personal services
hired a daily to come in each morning to cook and clean
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Recent Examples of dailies
Within two days, the Moy-Chin nuptials became national news, the sort of story that editors of small-town papers liked to pluck out of the big-city dailies and run alongside items about the oldest living person or the length of the Nile River.
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Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
The actors watched each others’ dailies and McEwen would sometimes sneak on set to watch Kidman in action.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
According to Affleck, the InterPositive system builds an AI model based on an existing production’s dailies, then lets a filmmaker introduce that model into the postproduction process to provide the ability to do things like mix and color, relight shots, and add visual effects.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
Society news offered an early addition to the broader newspaper editorial mix and was important to the development of popular mass-appeal dailies, a necessary step on the way to what is today called lifestyle coverage.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
The Register staff won 11 first-place awards, nine second-place awards and three third-place awards across different categories in its size class for Iowa dailies.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
Processing film dailies during on-set production, both speeding the ingest process and enabling quick evaluation of creative options during shooting.
—David Bloom, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Metropolitan dailies, in particular, have suffered despite the growing urban population, with the slack taken up somewhat by the increase in suburban newspapers.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In this safe house, Etminan went through dailies on a 2020 MacBook Air hooked up to a widescreen TV.
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Charlotte Brooks, Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026
The actors watched each others’ dailies and McEwen would sometimes sneak on set to watch Kidman in action.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
According to Affleck, the InterPositive system builds an AI model based on an existing production’s dailies, then lets a filmmaker introduce that model into the postproduction process to provide the ability to do things like mix and color, relight shots, and add visual effects.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
Society news offered an early addition to the broader newspaper editorial mix and was important to the development of popular mass-appeal dailies, a necessary step on the way to what is today called lifestyle coverage.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
The Register staff won 11 first-place awards, nine second-place awards and three third-place awards across different categories in its size class for Iowa dailies.
—Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
Processing film dailies during on-set production, both speeding the ingest process and enabling quick evaluation of creative options during shooting.
—David Bloom, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Metropolitan dailies, in particular, have suffered despite the growing urban population, with the slack taken up somewhat by the increase in suburban newspapers.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In this safe house, Etminan went through dailies on a 2020 MacBook Air hooked up to a widescreen TV.
—Hugh Hart, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dailies
Noun
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The latter is less of a mother to Agnes than Rosa (Kira Guloien), one of the household’s many Marthas (put-upon domestic servants).—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2026
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Her house is immense and kept in immaculate condition by her family’s servants (the Marthas).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Roughly 82% of the Bay Area’s maids and housekeepers are immigrants, and close to 40% of the total are undocumented.—
Sara DiNatale,
San Francisco Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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But the bar maids rallied together and eventually won their fight.—
Hannah Kliger,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Dailies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dailies. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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