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
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Noun
  • While getting the ensemble back together presented a logistical puzzle with the actors in such demand following the success of the original, diaries have now been cleared.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on YouTube and social media platforms like TikTok, Ross McElwee was America’s preeminent first-person filmmaker.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Top-tier academic journals such as Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet have published reams of research funded by the Chinese Communist Party in recent years, a Washington Examiner review found.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The research has been published in the Nature journal.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Daybook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daybook. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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