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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 China’s academic scientific output, as measured by publications in Nature journals, has surpassed that of the U.S. Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025 The team's study was published in March in the journal JGR Planets. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025 As detailed in a study published last week in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, the living bacteria survived in the structure for an extended amount of time, laying the groundwork for more environmentally friendly and self-healing construction material down the line. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025 In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on April 14, 2025, my planetary scientist colleagues and I tried to answer an age-old question: Where are all the carbonaceous chondrites? Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for journal
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Noun
  • In 1934, South Carolina newspaper archives include a traveler's story of encountering salted watermelon and pumpkin seeds at restaurants in Hiroshima, Japan.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Conclave members are sworn to absolute secrecy and have minimal contact with the outside world: Televisions, radios, phones, cameras, computers, newspapers and magazines are banned, and no written or verbal correspondence with anyone outside the conclave is allowed.
    Christopher Watson, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There is advice for journaling and a plethora of purchasing options for gratitude notebooks and diaries.
    Monica Y. Bartlett, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025
  • These aren’t my words, or even the diaries of a polar explorer, but those of my grandmother Sara Eubanks, who traveled to what is called the white continent in January 2003 in celebration of my grandfather Robert’s 70th birthday.
    Caroline Eubanks, Chicago Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The society published a periodical called the Advocate of Moral Reform, as well as pamphlets addressed to upper-class audiences.
    Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, Amos Kendall, the nation’s postmaster general, adopted an extreme states’ rights position and suppressed the periodicals in the interest of buttressing local mores.
    Sarah Prager, JSTOR Daily, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Your suggestion that a restaurant gift certificate is far more practical than receiving flowers (or an automatically renewing magazine subscription) is a good one.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, Bon Appetit magazine was actually sued for using the name!
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That has only intensified the public's curiosity about the process, a curiosity captured in popular culture by books and films like last year's Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The Jonestown massacre has been the subject of several documentaries and books.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Journal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journal. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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