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diary

[dahy-uh-ree] / ˈdaɪ ə ri /


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They hiked along the Rhine, stayed in taverns and enjoyed, as Clara wrote in her diary, “the most wonderful things in nature.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Through reading her mother’s diary entries, Tomlinson began to heal from the impossible standards she set for herself to follow in her mother’s footsteps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The judge said diary entries by her suggest she was "overwhelmed by feelings of rejection, abandonment and emotional despair".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The other piece of Marsh’s I returned to over the years was his infamous tour diary on the 1975 Rolling Stones tour, titled “I Call and Call and Call On Mick.”

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Look in her files, and you’ll find only a few papers, a slim diary, and a handful of old photos from that time.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Liu attracted followers on Chinese social media where he posted religious discussions, video diaries, and clips of himself singing.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Anthony Fauci’s diaries tell us what we already knew: Behind every public official’s confident assertions is a fallible human being.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Paul’s office has also released copies of Fauci’s Covid-era diaries that it received from HHS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The doctor’s recently released Covid-era diaries are only a fraction of the material now in congressional investigators’ hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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