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 The former photographer from Rochester, New York, was arrested in 2010 after police found a diary listing unnamed women, explicit photographs and other evidence. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 Other than the online diary, Gendron reportedly received weapons tips in another Discord server where members mostly discussed guns and tactical gear. Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025 Those specifics sit alongside her discovery of Samantha’s diary, where Raquel engages themes that Samantha also faced – like adoption and advocacy – showing how cultural pride and historical awareness can strengthen each other across generations. Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025 The Manhattan district attorney’s office quoted extensively from Mangione’s handwritten diary in a court filing seeking to uphold his state murder charges. Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diary
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  • If confirmed, the findings, which were published in the journal Science, could radically alter our understanding of human evolution by showing that modern humans, Neanderthals, and related species co-existed across Asia for hundreds of thousands of years.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The findings, published this month in the British journal Age and Ageing, are a substudy of the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study, or COSMOS.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025

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“Diary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diary. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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