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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 Her work has been published in management journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Management. Riki Takeuchi, Harvard Business Review, 6 Mar. 2025 What the data shows A study published early this year in the journal PLOS One that was conducted by researchers in the U.S., Germany and Jordan found that childhood cancer rates in America have increased by approximately 33% since 1975. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025 List: In what states is weed legal? Cases of kids consuming edibles on the rise The number of children under the age of 6 who accidentally ate products laced cannabis rose from 207 cases in 2017 to 3,014 cases in 2021, according to a 2023 study published in the journal Pediatrics. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025 Nearly seven years later, Sugimoto, Collins, and Dr. Takato Izumi of Fukuyama University have confirmed that Sugimoto’s specimens were a new species of hydrozoan, an animal closely related to jellyfish, according to a Feb. 28 study published in the journal Plankton and Benthos Research. Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for journal
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Noun
  • The windows were open squares pasted over with layers of newspaper, and the room was occupied mainly by a brick bed large enough for the parents and the four children to share.
    Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Previously, many of the big discussion points of the time were driven through more traditional media, such as newspapers or the television.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • However, her father Otto Frank fulfilled his daughter's wish of becoming a writer by posthumously publishing her diary chronicling their life in hiding.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Her strategy to surviving the circuit of events is to clear her whole diary.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The expert testimony that the jury didn’t hear was presented by affidavit and published in periodicals around the nation.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • De Molina was a celebrated photographer who traded war zones in Central and South America for a career as a paparazzo, snapping shots of celebrities that landed in magazines across the world.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Feb. 2025
  • It was also corrected to show that Hackman spoke to Empire magazine in 2009, not 2020.
    SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The fall look book, shot by photographer Alessandro Furchino Capria, captures a model in the streets of Paris, in keeping with the line’s focus on everyday dressing.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 6 Mar. 2025
  • His latest book, The Warner Brothers, was named one of the best of 2023 by Sight and Sound magazine.
    Chris Yogerst / Made by History, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025

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“Journal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journal. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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