1
as in to record
to make a written note of
the station captain logged the arrest and then left for home
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2
as in to win
to obtain (as a goal) through effort
an actor who has logged a record number of Academy Award nominations in the course of her career
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as in logbook
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Recent Examples of log
Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
Burks logged a short June booking for her three-bedroom home with its hotub in Kansas City’s West Plaza neighborhood.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
One of the 6th-century burials had been placed in a log coffin, Birch said — and although most of the remains did not survive, a soil stain marked where it had been laid, along with a few cranial fragments.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Verb
The online sales are routed to that store, where employees scan tickets sold at the store and then send pictures to players to confirm their purchases and log their serial numbers.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
Burks logged a short June booking for her three-bedroom home with its hotub in Kansas City’s West Plaza neighborhood.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
Carved from a single log, its existence rarely survives as the coffin was made of wood, but the wet, humid environment ended up preserving it, giving modern-day viewers an unprecedented look at a rare wooden Roman-era coffin.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
One of the 6th-century burials had been placed in a log coffin, Birch said — and although most of the remains did not survive, a soil stain marked where it had been laid, along with a few cranial fragments.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for log
Verb
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Intriguingly, the lunar surface is littered with craters that record the chaotic early days of the solar system when planets and asteroids were smashing into one another.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Meyers is also accused of coercing the 15-year-old into recording the high school’s wrestling team, the complaint alleges.—
Brittany Kubicko,
NBC news,
20 Feb. 2026
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The American team won the Olympic gold medal on Sunday, the first time in 46 years.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Including their home win over Chicago before the NBA All-Star break, the 38-19 Celtics have won four straight — all by double digits — and nine of their last 10.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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The 11-foot male shark had more than 10,000 detections on the conservancy’s logbook as of last year.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
13 Nov. 2025
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She's tried to convince people to lend logbooks or family journals to the historical society to photocopy for data collection.—
Angelika Ytuarte,
jsonline.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Part of the reason Bragg didn’t know is that South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report admissions for measles, potentially obscuring the disease’s severity.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Variety has also recently reported that most WBD employees favor Netflix over Paramount as a potential buyer.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Prototype achieves high capacity and industrial-scale metrics At the core of the prototype is a conductive polymer known as poly(benzodifurandione), or PBFDO.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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Who in the world has either achieved so much or been beaten up so badly to need to quit at 16?—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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Interiors here draw from a range of cultural aesthetics, incorporating design elements from around the world as a reflection of the owner's varied travel diaries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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This could include asking questions about when patients are noticing their hives (after a hot shower or after being in the sun, for example), or asking patients to keep a symptom diary.—
Zia Sherrell,
Health,
20 Feb. 2026
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It is believed that during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, the Angel Gabriel began delivering the Quran, which was later transcribed into writing, to the Prophet Muhammad.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
17 Feb. 2026
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In this dark matter, noncoding DNA is transcribed into noncoding RNA.—
Marlene Belfort,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
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Johnson attained alpine skiing’s highest award with a streaking run down the Cortina downhill track on Sunday, February 9.—
Katherine Cusumano,
Outside,
21 Feb. 2026
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Stevens said that though Jackson is gone, his goals have not yet been attained, and people need to focus on making that happen.—
Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Log.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/log. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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