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  • noun Plural form of datebook.

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Examples

  • This time, instead of just nodding our heads in agreement, we pulled out our datebooks and picked an evening after New Year's; vacations were over, the social season dormant and no competing sporting events.

    Liz Neumark: Potluck in the Lobby Liz Neumark 2012

  • Neglecting to fill your social calendar under such circumstances can lead to some long, empty weekends, but even those whose datebooks are overflowing may find that loneliness lurks like a shadow when the party is over and they're once again by themselves.

    Roommate Not Wanted Daniel Akst 2012

  • I have datebooks, which were separate from my diaries, in which I would write down everything I did every day.

    A Conversation with Alison Bechdel « Gender Across Borders 2010

  • We just scoured Geithner's datebooks (which the Gray Lady posted on its Web site) and found something way more interesting than lunch plans with Sandy Weill -- it's the significant amount of time he spent shooting the breeze with big-cheese financial journalists.

    Yvette Kantrow: Club sandwich 2009

  • Some use latex, milked from the wild rubber groves of Acre, in western Amazonia, to make ecologically correct jeans, tennis shoes, knapsacks and datebooks.

    Not As Green As They Seem 2008

  • A wide new array of handheld electronic products-from datebooks to the Bible-takes off The latest revolution in consumer electronics is, well, tiny.

    It's A Small, Small World 2008

  • Though I did produce a black and white one a few years ago, I think most people prefer full color datebooks.

    2007 October | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2007

  • Though I did produce a black and white one a few years ago, I think most people prefer full color datebooks.

    2008 goddess calendar survey results! | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2007

  • Plus, while I have been known to buy a second datebook because I did not like the first, and this year I hedged against that possibility by buying two datebooks luckily S wants the second, when it comes to computers, we are definitely in it for the long-term--the Mac replaced a desktop that was at least five years old, maybe six, and that was so slow and shaky I couldn't bear to use it.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Becca 2007

  • Plus, while I have been known to buy a second datebook because I did not like the first, and this year I hedged against that possibility by buying two datebooks luckily S wants the second, when it comes to computers, we are definitely in it for the long-term--the Mac replaced a desktop that was at least five years old, maybe six, and that was so slow and shaky I couldn't bear to use it.

    I Must Face the Facts Becca 2007

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