nightly

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They hold "entertainments" nightly, and periodically, last minute substitutions have to be made, which just seems surreal.

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  1. adjective Of or occurring during the night; nocturnal: the cat's nightly prowl.
  2. adjective Happening or done every night: the physician's nightly rounds.

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  • What we faced daily - and nightly was the bizarre confluence of crack madness and yuppie madness, a police force which was stretched beyond having any interest that crackheads were rattling every dooorknob on the block in case it might yield entrance to anything that wasn't nailed down, or lurking - sometimes inside - places where cash machines were shining and glistening. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Much of what we now associate with the Chez Panisse revolution in American cooking -- a single menu updated nightly, a stress on high-quality ingredients, an almost minimalist approach to food preparation -- was in place from the opening night, largely because the Chez Panisse was essentially an extension of Alice Water's home kitchen. —  One-Way Street
  • Rocky after she coined our nightly ritual Rocky Rocky. —  simplynutmeg.com
  • I would sign each slot nightly, and I was a stickler on this. —  BlogHer
  • You should continue to have frequent full backups (nightly is a minimum); otherwise, the size of each differential backup will continue to grow to a potentially unwieldy size. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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nocturnal ·  weekly ·  daily ·  continual ·  periodic ·  nighttime ·  ceaseless ·  endless ·  midnight ·  late-night ·  fruitless ·  heavenly
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  1. from Middle English *nightly, nihtlic, from Anglo-Saxon nihtlīc (= Dutch nachtelijk = Middle Low German nachtlik = Old High German nahtlīh, Middle High German nachtlich, G. nächtlich = Icelandic nætrligr = Swedish nattlig = Danish natlig), from niht, night: see night and - ly.
  2. from nightly, adjective
 

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/ˈnaɪtli/
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