as in journal
a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use has diligently kept a diary since she was 15

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Recent Examples of diary Sleep duration and midpoint were calculated daily with sleep diaries. New Atlas, 24 Aug. 2025 The internet is not your personal diary. Peter Boyd, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 One moment in her diary has always stood out to me, when the careful screen of convention slips and a piece of the too-bright self flares through. Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025 Her diaries from this period were peppered with concern. Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diary
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journal
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  • 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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“Diary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diary. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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