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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 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 In one of these journals, called Notebook B, there is an incidental sketch, a few scratched lines like the barren twigs of a winter tree. — Literary Hub, 22 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 The organization has generated $13 million in research, published 25 studies in scientific journals and created innovative programs to support veterans, according to its website. — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026

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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

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The diaries of the novelist Andrey Kurkov (collected into three volumes thus far) provide a rich chronicle of Ukrainians’ evolving responses to their extraordinary circumstances.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
The doc is constructed largely from Hammer’s own archive spanning five decades, alongside audio diaries and present-day conversations with her longtime partner, Florrie Burke.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

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Most self-help books say anger and grudges are self-defeating — there’s that line everybody uses that holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

— Lane Brown, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Numerous books written by women who fled the FLDS community provide autobiographical and critical accounts of the group.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

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Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Liu’s mother would influence her middle son’s future art career in another important way, buying him books and magazines about art, some of which introduced him to the work of figures like Diego Rivera and Andy Warhol.

— Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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While jellyfish, an even more remote species, have two nervous systems, the findings suggest these two organs may have slowly grown close to each other.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026
This implies that our own hindbrain is already represented by an exclusive lineage of cells distinct from the forebrain and midbrain just three weeks after conception, roughly when other major organs like the heart are distinguishing themselves.

— Mike McRae September 21, New Atlas, 22 Sep. 2026

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