Thesaurus results for DIARY

diary

noun

ˈdī-(ə-)rē

as in journal

a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use has diligently kept a diary since she was 15

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Recent Examples of diary As Suzanne studies the dead woman’s diaries to sustain the illusion, her performance becomes increasingly intimate, and increasingly dangerous, as genuine feelings begin to blur the line between artifice and truth. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 To sustain her ruse, Suzanne discovers volumes of diaries written by the painter’s late wife. —

Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026 These intimate reflections read like pages taken from private diaries, with all the informality and vulnerability of that genre, including misspellings and stray thoughts. —

Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026 The studies cited used set caffeine doses or placebos and tracked participants with brain-wave monitoring, sleep diaries and questionnaires across hundreds to thousands of people. —

Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for diary

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journal

Noun

Now, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, a team describes a solution that decodes a person's brain waves to choose which voice their hearing system will amplify.

— Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 May 2026
In a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, Chinese geneticist Fu Qiaomei and her colleagues successfully extracted and analyzed ancient enamel proteins from the teeth unearthed at three sites in China.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 14 May 2026