journals

plural of journal
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as in diaries
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 But available information from state health departments and medical journals suggests the Florida outbreak marks the most cases in a calendar year for any state since at least the 1940s. — Mike Stobbe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 Shimoda reveals how identities are forged through steamships crisscrossing the Pacific, formed by old family journals and photographs, and also obscured by systemic erasure. — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026 Ira Price, a U of C professor, had a house in Morgan Park but had to get to Hyde Park and used that bicycle at least a few times for the 6- to 7-mile trip, writing about it in his journals. — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 And inJanuary space agency officials closed the building that housed Goddard’s library—NASA’s largest—which stored thousands of historical journals and spaceflight documents and was used as a meeting place for Goddard employees. — Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026 Her grandfather shows up in journals Steinbeck kept during the process of writing East of Eden. — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 The new standards, which were published in each group’s respective scientific journals, are meant to prevent common issues that contribute to the sobering figure above. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2026 As the historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway reported in the book Merchants of Doubt, the institute strategically refused to publish in journals subject to independent peer review. — Matthew Sun, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 Historians have gleaned information from journals, letters and diaries, about their dialect. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for journals
Noun
  • Operating for nearly a century, Algani began in 1927 as a modest seller of newspapers, periodicals, and postcards before evolving into one of the city’s first international newsstands.
    — Eleonora Giordani, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
  • People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Using letters, diaries, and journals, Bell-Scott shows how their intellectual partnership blossomed.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Literary Agency, Germany The debut novel explores family grief and trauma, generational friction, and memory through a narrative puzzle emerging from diaries and testimonies.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • HarperCollins said Archer's books were sold in 119 countries.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Shop for clothing, books, antiques, and jewelry (Croghan’s is amazing) up and down King Street.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Also on the lobby level, a corner shop sells downloadable newspapers and magazines, snacks, and classic Penguin paperbacks.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier bans were usually covered by local newspapers and then eventually forgotten.
    — Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Which is to say the agents are hustling — and even trying to submit to literary magazines — to stay alive.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
  • If you get parched while walking the trails, pop into a resting station with bathrooms, coffee, water, snacks, books, and magazines.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The company added that CagriSema reduced harmful fat around abdominal organs, including in the liver and pancreas, in adults with Type 2 diabetes.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Immix Biopharma said its experimental CAR-T therapy induced complete remissions in 89% of patients with AL Amyloidosis, a rare autoimmune disorder in which toxic proteins build up in organs like the heart and kidneys.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Journals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journals. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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