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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 journal The results were published last September in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2025 Under India's One Nation One Subscription, some 18 million students, faculty, and researchers will have access to nearly 13,000 journals for the next three years. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025 The study, published recently in the journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a national government survey of nearly 41,000 people. Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025 Researchers reviewed past papers on cold-water immersion and health for their study, published in the journal PLoS One. Maggie O'Neill, Health, 8 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for journal 
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  • The newspaper also said Andrew met the Chinese ambassador to Britain to ask for help promoting Waterberg Stirling's investment interests in China.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Floridians figuratively live in dark times: many believe that evil forces embodied by the federal government are trying to destroy America, and most newspapers are on life support.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
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  • Now, both Rose and Alexander hope to read Boss’s diaries for themselves.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • When creating the outfits for the first 2001 Bridget Jones cast, Fleming sought to give Jones — whose diary entries detailed her romantic adventures, weight, and alcohol and cigarette consumption — a pragmatic, somewhat disheveled look that would feel relatable to busy women.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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  • Their work began last year and continues through March, with the goals of creating a quilt show and adding information to the Mingei’s databases through researching periodicals, magazines, speaking with and learning from quilt historians, and from local quilters.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Johnson, who already has a pickleball business consulting business and a periodical launched focusing on the industry of the sport, will now help bring some organizational order to the growing world of facilities owners.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • This story appeared in the Feb. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
    Brad Japhe, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Many of these episodes expanded upon subjects written about in Scientific American magazine.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Feb. 2025
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  • But Robinson lent his work a different kind of conceptual underpinning via his process, which relied not on traditional training but the kind of learning available in amateur painting books.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Fine, fall in love with what is one of arguably the greatest films ever made or see the story book romance a tenth time (but maybe only the second time on the big screen).
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 Feb. 2025

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“Journal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journal. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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