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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 On December 16, Clarivate—a scholarly publication analytics company—removed the journal Chemosphere from its platform, the Web of Science, which is a key index for academic journals. Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024 The study was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024 Drinking three cups of coffee each day may extend healthspan by nearly two years, according to a new review published in the journal Ageing Research Reviews.1 Researchers at the University of Coimbra in Portugal analyzed 85 studies worldwide examining coffee’s impact on health. Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2024 The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, challenges the longstanding idea that the moon formed roughly 4.35 billion years ago, after a Mars-sized object smashed into the early Earth and created our natural satellite. Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for journal 
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  • In the 1950s and 1960s, newspapers tried to ignore the new medium.
    Tim Kiska, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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  • Between songs, ensemble members deliver brief monologues from individual combatants and others, drawn from letters, diaries and other documents.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But the diary of Narendra Sethia, a British supply officer on the attacking submarine, sharply contradicted the government’s account and justifications; when its contents were made public, Parliament rang with war-crimes accusations.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
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  • Less than a decade after Mao’s death, periodicals filled with dueling essays on contentious questions such as the relevance of Karl Marx’s theory of alienation and whether traditional Confucianism impeded China’s modernization.
    Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Daily newspapers ran no images, and the technology to reproduce photographs in books or periodicals was still 40 years away.
    Andrea Kaston Tange, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
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  • Newsweek's Workplaces Editor Aman Kidwai moderated the discussion at the magazine's office at One World Trade Center in New York City.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • As an introverted schoolboy in Reading, England—his family had moved there from Belfast—Branagh wrote to his actor heroes, combing through old theatre magazines and charting their rise from tiny parts at the Royal Shakespeare Company to later triumphs.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • The psychological thriller, adapted from a book of the same name, follows a crime that shatters a decades-long friendship of three women.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In all, Hill has written or helped with 14 books on various subjects from basketball to murder, the Belle of Louisville and gardening.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Journal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/journal. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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