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
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
As of Monday, 46 people have died in fires so far this year — a 64% jump from the 28 deaths logged at this point last year, officials said.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026
Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Robert Sumwalt, former chairman of NTSB, has described how the federal agency restricts listening access to a handful of people who must first sign a log and nondisclosure agreement, with cellphones being left outside and handwritten notes being destroyed afterward.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
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Verb
The 26-year-old logged his first career multi-home run game in the Marlins’ 4-1 win over the New York Mets at loanDepot park, hitting solo shots in the third and fifth innings to provide some key insurance runs to clinch the series.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
As of Monday, 46 people have died in fires so far this year — a 64% jump from the 28 deaths logged at this point last year, officials said.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026
Noun
Saturday, according to the department’s incident log.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
Robert Sumwalt, former chairman of NTSB, has described how the federal agency restricts listening access to a handful of people who must first sign a log and nondisclosure agreement, with cellphones being left outside and handwritten notes being destroyed afterward.
—ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
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Verb
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Escobar recorded the final out in the seventh on a strikeout to strand the tying and go-ahead runs on first and second base.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Wrobleski recorded a ninth strikeout, for the second out of the sixth, before surrendering a hit.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Saugus has won multiple playoff games in each of its first two seasons under head coach Mike Miller.—
Justin Vigil Zuniga,
Daily News,
27 May 2026
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Lost in all the offense was the strong pitching performance from Tyson Bobo, who won his second game in the playoffs and improved to 6-3 on the season.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2026
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The law also requires cruise lines to maintain a logbook of all complaints of serious crimes and to report these to the nearest FBI field office as soon as possible.—
Christopher Elliott,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Mar. 2026
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Deegan has said as soon as her office became aware of the gun logbooks, the city immediately stopped using them.—
David Bauerlein,
Florida Times-Union,
26 Jan. 2026
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Another in 2024 accused the company of failing to keep equipment properly maintained and for failing to report a breakdown in a blending kettle, records show.—
Jason Henry,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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More strikes were reported in southern Lebanon earlier today, with the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reporting that civil defense teams recovered the bodies of four people, including children, after an airstrike hit a residential house in the town of Adloun.—
Alayna Treene,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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That does not mean MAHA has achieved nothing.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2026
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For certain kinds of problems with the right mathematical structure, this promises an exponential speedup over anything a classical machine could achieve.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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Her life and works are adapted for stage and screen, and her diaries have been serialized on radio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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My Chief of Staff built a full end-to-end app for Cannes Lions that coordinates scheduling across 20+ executive diaries, manages the Canva Cabana program, and pipes lead interactions directly into our CRM.—
Rob Giglio,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Conversations were transcribed automatically.—
Daria Rudnik,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Executions are not recorded, so statements are transcribed at the time by hand.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
Verb
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Waymo states that these sensors are necessary to attain high levels of safety.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Meanwhile, looksmaxxers with an especially large following of hundreds of thousands of people on social media platforms like TikTok and Kick have attained pop-culture status.—
Jordyn Tovey,
The Conversation,
22 May 2026
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“Log.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/log. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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