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as in to record
to make a written note of
the station captain logged the arrest and then left for home
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as in to win
to obtain (as a goal) through effort
an actor who has logged a record number of Academy Award nominations in the course of her career
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as in logbook
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Recent Examples of log
Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Once logged in to your iCloud account, select the menu icon in the upper right corner.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
Simply form the dough into a log then wrap and stash it in the freezer for up to a month.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Stocks logged small gains Wednesday on two major indexes, despite uninspiring economic reports and some ominous words from the president-elect.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Once logged in to your iCloud account, select the menu icon in the upper right corner.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Buche de Noel, or yule log, came in first in California, Tennessee and Louisiana — while residents of Alaska, Vermont and Idaho searched for the ever-popular sugar cookie more than anything else.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
Simply form the dough into a log then wrap and stash it in the freezer for up to a month.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Top 10 Center Fielders In 2024, only eight pitchers recorded 30 saves — the fewest in a 162-game season since 1988.Newsweek, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Powers recorded the album with co-producer and mixer-engineer Rodaidh McDonald.Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
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Prior to this year, Lamar Jackson had won 2 playoff games and 2 MVP awards.Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Sacramento has won seven in a row under interim coach Doug Christie, who took the helm when Mike Brown was fired Dec. 27.Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 14 Jan. 2025
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Rodriguez breezed through the day-to-day material covering when to use a fire extinguisher and how to fill out a logbook, but lingered on the slides about dirty bombs, mass shootings, and terrorist attacks.Jasper Craven, Harper's Magazine, 23 July 2024
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Moreover, the logbooks of eyewitnesses in the royal fleet suggested that the Gloucester hit the Ower, rather than the Leman.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Cops said Michael Lewis, 55, traveled from his hometown of Denton, Texas, to the city where Clark plays for the Indiana Fever in the WNBA, the Indianapolis Star reported.Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s nominees have been preparing for the hearings in practice sessions with Trump’s advisers and Republican allies in the Senate, CNN reported.Sara Dorn, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The track achieved the longest climb to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a solo male artist, taking 32 weeks to reach the summit in March 2024.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2025
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The researchers found that the medaka males mated an average of 19 times per day, with some only achieving four and others up to 27 times.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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While her diary in 2025 doesn’t include any full-scale foreign tours, she is expected to appear at major royal events, including Trooping the Colour.Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Yet that night in his voice diary, Williams sounded like a man in despair.Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
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In its quest to transcribe historic documents, the National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: reading cursive.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
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His latest book tells the story of a Lutheran priest in the early-20th-century American West who has transcribed the life of a vampire.Michael Schaub, Orange County Register, 2 Jan. 2025
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An expansion of options and price range with Zero EVs are unquestionably expensive, and Honda says its new Zero platform will attain 300 miles (482 km) of range in all forms (SUV and Saloon) at a base level.Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
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Individual countries may attain mastery of different pieces, but like-minded states will need to work together to assemble the full puzzle and keep it out of the reach of authoritarian states.Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Log.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/log. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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