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journals

noun

plural of journal

as in periodicals

a publication that appears at regular intervals a monthly scientific journal

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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 journals Two of the world’s leading medical journals published key studies this week that shed even more light on how ADHD impacts adults. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2026 The library used to house thousands of books, journals, and reports that employees could use to learn, research, and explore ideas — much like The Garage. — Tom Warren, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026 In 2015, an attempt to replicate 100 studies published in leading psychology journals resulted in only 36% of replications achieving statistically significant results, compared with 97% in the original studies. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026 Before social media even existed, Christie Brinkley was documenting her life through letters, journals and home movies. — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026 The show's storylines were based on interviews with real-life survivors of Easy Company, in addition to letters and journals of real soldiers. — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 These poignant and revealing journals cover the years after the financial disaster that engulfed Scott. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026 Others believe that tree-ring research, and the scientific journals that publish it, overestimate the number of historical fires. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Natural toiletries, journals and in-room yoga mats are a suitably Kamalaya touch. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026

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Gates, who now stewards the photographic archives and periodicals of the Johnson Publishing Company, has exhibited it in different forms.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
When word spread that the Chief Librarian of the Army was paying a visit, soldiers rushed to request their favorite periodicals and book genres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026

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So much so, in fact, that the couple initially set out to be collaborators, filling their diaries with friendly coffees and gigs over the next couple of months.

— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026
Writing, the Other Life, a volume of her letters, interviews, previously unpublished diaries, and essays about her literary and political contributions, is now available in English.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026

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The shop offers several book clubs, events and even books for rent for book clubs.

— Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Advent Calendar Storybook Collection On Sale 20% off The budding bookworm will enjoy flipping through 24 Sesame Street mini books.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 2026

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The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.

— Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Their case was supported by the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL), whose member newspapers account for approximately 97% of Norwegian newspaper circulation.

— Barbara Ortutay, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

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Existing approaches have typically relied on relatively bulky energy-harvesting devices sutured onto organs, which have struggled to generate practically useful amounts of power.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2026
The tubular organs roll back far enough to gaze upwards through transparent tissue in its head to hunt for prey.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026

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