as in diary
a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use each night, before bed, she jots down her thoughts in a daybook

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Recent Examples of daybook Pruitt’s remarks at the meeting were listed on his public schedule and described as being open to the press on a federal daybook of events. Washington Post, 22 May 2018 DAYBOOK: Trump and Pence have no public events today. James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2017 DAYBOOK: Trump will have lunch with the vice president followed by a meeting with the secretary of state. James Hohmann, Washington Post, 17 July 2017 DAYBOOK: Trump and Pence have no public events scheduled. James Hohmann, Washington Post, 5 May 2017
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Noun
  • Drawing from her private diaries and thousands of analog photographs, the director charts Jarcovjáková’s life from the dissident art circles of communist Czechoslovakia to high-fashion shoots in Tokyo.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The film was created from her private diaries and thousands of analog photographs, depicting the underground movement in 1980s Czechoslovakia as well as Jarcovjáková’s dramatic escape to West Berlin and an exclusive photo shoot in Tokyo.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Beneath the surface, however, the rig is teeming with life, according to a study published Aug. 4 in the journal Scielo Brazil.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In a paper appearing in the journal Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, author Brian Fields notes that BBN represents our earliest reliable probe of the cosmos.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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“Daybook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daybook. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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