day after day

idiomatic phrase

: for an indefinite or seemingly endless number of days

followed the same routine day after day

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Avoiding boredom of sitting in the same spot day after day. Cons of Mobile Hunting the Rut As with all hunting strategies, mobile hunting during the rut does have some drawbacks as well. —

Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024 Across all of the accounts, day after day, politics was clearly the main subject, and overwhelmingly in-line with Musk’s own political views. —

Kali Hays, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024 To look her assailants in the eye, day after day, on stage in front of a now-global public. —

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 Writing about the grief of separation and loss, reading the drafts hour after hour, day after day, gave me another way to begin to work through it. —

Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for day after day

Word History

First Known Use

1555, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of day after day was in 1555

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“Day after day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20after%20day. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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