du jour
adjective
, də-, -ˈzhu̇r, -ˈzhür\
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Synonyms & Antonyms for du jour
Synonyms
big, crowd-pleasing, faddish, faddy, fashionable, favorite, happening, hot, in, large, modish, pop, popular, popularized, red-hot, vogue, voguish
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Alarcòn told the team before describing her obsession du jour: the comfort food of her childhood like fondue and casseroles. — Adam Chandler, Time, "The Fascinating Way Popeyes Comes Up With New Items Like That Chicken Sandwich Everyone Is Obsessed With," 9 Sep. 2019 Over the years, Madonna has hired producers to help her weave the genres du jour into her music, and sometimes those producers have gone overboard. — C.m., The Economist, "Madonna remains scandalous, but for the wrong reason," 19 June 2019 On Friday, the Tigers gave away mini-bats honoring Lance Parrish and Lou Whitaker, and on Saturday, the giveaway du jour was a Sparky Anderson bobblehead. — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, "Here's why ex-Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer is underpaid at $42 million a year," 29 June 2019 The waters aren’t shallow enough to stand in, so when boats park, swimming and floats are the modes of transportation du jour. — Shiona Turini, Essence, "Get Lost: 72 Hours In Bermuda," 9 Aug. 2019 Recently, Atkins has been marketing itself as a less strict, but just-as-effective version as 2019's diet du jour, Keto. — NBC News, "Forever 21 accused of fat-shaming after mailing diet bars with orders, including plus-size orders," 24 July 2019 The only thing millennials love more than getting text notifications from horoscope apps, podcasts about the grifter du jour, and Timothée Chalamet are piercings. — Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, "Curated Constellation Ear Piercings Are Big News This Summer," 3 July 2019 Phoebe Waller-Bridge brings some salty line readings to her performance as the droid du jour. — Justin Chang, latimes.com, "'Solo: A Star Wars Story' never gets off the ground, but don't blame Alden Ehrenreich," 16 May 2018 And the combination of the FBI disclosing this and opting not to disclose anything suspicious about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia does a pretty good job arguing against Trump's latest conspiracy theory du jour. — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, "The No. 1 reason Trump’s ‘spygate’ conspiracy theory doesn’t make sense," 23 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'du jour.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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du jour
adjective
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