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diary

[dahy-uh-ree] / ˈdaɪ ə ri /


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For 16 years, “WTF” served as a public diary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

His diary depicts a world unwittingly, then unmistakably, spinning toward destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The former brilliantly evokes wistful teenage dreaming as a character walks through their high school, adorned by a yearning Caroline Polachek song and light-pink diary scribblings.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding has launched a new prize aimed at discovering funny diary writers from the north of England, saying opportunities across the UK are "very uneven".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“The dear one is daily improving…,” he wrote in his diary on Thursday, June 9, “and every other sorrow fades in the light of the joy her recovery brings.”

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Part of what hampered his chances of a reprieve were extracts from his diaries which were widely circulated, publicly outing him as a homosexual.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Many of Riva’s recollections draw on her mother’s own diaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I say “meant to” because, like hormonal teenagers writing in diaries, AIs aren’t the most reliable narrators of their inner lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

So this date might be a good day for fans to mark in their diaries for a possible announcement.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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