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We tend to speak about things happening on a specific date, for example "it's taking place on the 5th of January" or "on Wednesday".By contrast, a nonspecific "day" is just a unit of time, like an hour...

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Why isn't it natural to say "throughout today" or "throughout yesterday"?

QuestionAccording to this post, the following uses of throughout are grammatical, but sound strange to native speakers(or maybe even wrong according to a comment on the post):throughout todaythroughout...

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