Definition of journalnext
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as in diary
a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use the writer faithfully records his dreams in a journal, believing that they are a vital key to self-understanding

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Recent Examples of journal The results will be published in the academic journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026 The discovery, published in the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution, describes a spider that has fully adapted to life on and around buildings — and thrives by eating the very insects most homeowners want gone. Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026 Their findings were published in the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution. Ryan Brennan april 15, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 The findings were published in the journal Nature Sustainability on April 15. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for journal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for journal
Noun
  • Similar allegations against Roberts-Smith were found credible in a civil court case in 2023 when a judge rejected his claims that newspaper articles defamed him.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • City News Café only coincidentally happens to share the name of the City News Bureau, the legendary Chicago wire service that provided Chicago newspapers and later TV and radio stations with police and fire, courtroom, and local government news dispatches.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Soundtrack was originally released as an audiobook so adapting it into its new print form was a different experience for the author — and anyone who's ever read their old diaries may be able to relate to seeing old words with new eyes.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The interesting back-story could also be conveyed better than the diaries scattered around the world.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, the agency is seeking price changes for first-class mail products, periodicals, marketing mail and package services.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Many colonial American newspaper editors, such as James Franklin and Benjamin Franklin, were deeply influenced by the essays Addison and Steele published in their periodicals, the Tatler and the Spectator.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Advances in storage density, and the digitization of everything from filing taxes to laying out magazines, changed this calculus.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Cabbage has been named the vegetable of the year by Pinterest and (checks notes) Vogue magazine, and is having its moment on social media.
    Candy Hom, AJC.com, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nowhere has the flipping of the form books been more striking than in La Liga, where two weekends ago — for only the third time in history — each of the bottom five teams picked up maximum points.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a shallow, 50-foot children’s pool with adjacent sun loungers and a playroom stacked with toys and books.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Journal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journal. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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