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Recent Examples of noonday
Under the noonday sun while fishing, or stealing light from the full moon, the point of his pencil traced the imaginary movements of the washers, threads, coil springs, cylinders, bolts, and screws that had long enriched the workings of his mind.
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Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Human twilight, with Hopkins in charge, became a noonday blaze.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
From Harriet Tubman's midnight raids to Coretta Scott King's noonday calls for justice, Black women have been writing this nation's most essential footnotes—often without credit, always with impact.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
By the time Patricia Wright and her entourage arrived at the guard station on the edge of the forest, about 50 local people had gathered in the shade of a blue plastic tarp in the scorching noonday sun.
—Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
About 200 parents and kids, most every bit as angry as Selig were out in front of McLaren Lodge in the noonday sun, at a rally that drew supporters from Berkeley,Marin County and elsewhere.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2022
High on a hillside overlooking the French Riviera, a smattering of astronomers is gathering for their noonday meal.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
At the federal building, where 168 people had died in a massive bomb blast, rescue workers were combing rubble for victims, guided by the eerie glow of floodlights that seemed to Garland as bright as the noonday sun.
—Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2021
The noonday heat and humidity were miserable.
—Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Human twilight, with Hopkins in charge, became a noonday blaze.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
From Harriet Tubman's midnight raids to Coretta Scott King's noonday calls for justice, Black women have been writing this nation's most essential footnotes—often without credit, always with impact.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
By the time Patricia Wright and her entourage arrived at the guard station on the edge of the forest, about 50 local people had gathered in the shade of a blue plastic tarp in the scorching noonday sun.
—Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
About 200 parents and kids, most every bit as angry as Selig were out in front of McLaren Lodge in the noonday sun, at a rally that drew supporters from Berkeley,Marin County and elsewhere.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2022
High on a hillside overlooking the French Riviera, a smattering of astronomers is gathering for their noonday meal.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
At the federal building, where 168 people had died in a massive bomb blast, rescue workers were combing rubble for victims, guided by the eerie glow of floodlights that seemed to Garland as bright as the noonday sun.
—Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2021
The noonday heat and humidity were miserable.
—Jack Shuler, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noonday
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The first public notice of it came shortly before noon Monday — more than eight hours after the deadly encounter — when the California Attorney General’s Office issued a press release announcing that the state’s Department of Justice was investigating the incident under Assembly Bill 1506.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The awards event will happen Thursday, March 26, at noon ET.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Kyiv — Soon after midday on July 19, 2024, Hrystyna Garkavenko, the 19-year-old daughter of a priest, arrived at his church in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine.—
Daria Tarasova-Markina,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Few things bog down the work day quite like the midday slump.—
Hunter Boyce,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Noonday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noonday. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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