LOG Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of log

as in to record

to make a written note of the station captain logged the arrest and then left for home

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as in to win

to obtain (as a goal) through effort an actor who has logged a record number of Academy Award nominations in the course of her career

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The appraisal well will collect downhole temperature measurements, logging information, core samples and continuous drilling data. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026 The bill would also impose criminal penalties on employees of AI companies who disable safeguards, kill switches, logging or containment systems, or who knowingly deploy an unauthorized system. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026

Noun

From July 2025 to August 2026, Lewis and Garg exchanged at least 2,000 text messages, according to a log Garg shared with Fortune. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 According to a crash log, the incident happened as a 50-year-old woman drove a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze on Hollingsworth Road. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for log

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Verb

In April, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo halted her performance of Dracula at the Noël Coward Theatre after spotting an audience member recording the show.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Musically, the album showed the band evolving beyond the Southern-rockisms of Opera, drawing upon contemporary influences like Centromatic and Steve Earle as well as heroes who recorded in their hometown.

— Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of record

Verb

Since winning the nomination, el Sayed has warmed to Schumer, as having the backing of the centrist wing of the party, which supported Stevens in the primary, will be crucial in taking on Republican nominee Mike Rogers.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award—computer science’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—along with fellow AI researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning, the neural network technology that underpins today’s AI boom.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of win

Noun

The report said the footage, which was reviewed at the scene, shows Torres placing the victim’s money inside a logbook, but the cash was never logged in the property book.

— Ana Maria Soler, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
The report said that the footage, which was reviewed at the scene, shows Torres placing the victim's money inside a logbook, but the cash was never logged in the property book.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of logbook

Verb

People report feeling less lonely after chatting with an AI companion, which resembles seeking comfort.

— Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
Chinese media also reported that participating forces were stationed underground during the exercise to protect them from drone attacks, illustrating how persistent aerial surveillance and strike drones are changing battlefield operations.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of report

Verb

Thus, during training the goal is to minimize the difference between the forecast and what actually happens until an AI model achieves the smallest possible error.

— Chanh Kieu, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Multi-agent systems (from Microsoft’s AutoGen to Claude Research’s subagents) have achieved limited coordination in this way over the past few years.

— Michael Morris, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of achieve

Noun

The film follows a boy who rebuilds his late mother from her texts, voice, and diary, and what wakes up never gives an order.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Literary Agency, Germany The debut novel explores family grief and trauma, generational friction, and memory through a narrative puzzle emerging from diaries and testimonies.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of diary

Verb

The conversations are already recorded and transcribed, so the more durable approach is to read the record instead of relying on memory.

— Snehal Nimje, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Liberated from the genome, the sequence in the RNA copy is then reverse-transcribed into DNA at a different location.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of transcribe

Verb

That show, launched in 2020, attained a cult following — it was named Best Podcasts of the Year by outlets like Vogue, Esquire and Cosmopolitan.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
Rabies in humans is completely preventable but medical help must be attained right away, according to the CDC.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

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