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Recent Examples of daybookFor others, a journal may double as a daybook, calendar, and catch-all for thoughts jotted down during a meeting or while waiting to pick up the kids at school.—Kate Donovan, Martha Stewart, 2 Feb. 2026 Pruitt’s remarks at the meeting were listed on his public schedule and described as being open to the press on a federal daybook of events.—Washington Post, 22 May 2018
The Royal Maundy Service is a steep tradition in the royal diary, taking place every year on the Thursday before Easter Sunday.
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Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
The veteran author and journalist has pulled from letters, diaries, interviews with aging survivors, and many other sources to chart how life and behavior shifted in the German capital from 1939 to 1945.
But a study in Thursday’s journal Science said many of the fossils in this trove are remnants of more complex animals that lived three-dimensional lives, traveling up through the water and eating.