blog
Americannoun
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a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
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a single entry or post on such a website.
She regularly contributes a blog to the magazine's website.
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Etymology
Origin of blog
First recorded in 1995–2000; shortening of weblog
Explanation
When your computer-loving friend takes your photograph, you might be wise to ask, "Are you planning to put that on your blog?" A blog is a personal website or online journal. It seems like everyone has a blog these days, or a website that's used as a personal diary for posting photos, stories, and entries about interests, families, or hobbies. Blog can also be used as a verb to mean "post something on a blog," so you could say, "I plan to blog about how delicious this slice of apple pie tastes." The original term, which was first used in the mid-1990s, was weblog, which was shortened to blog by 1998.
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Example Sentences
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"The internet is a lot. It is too much, constantly, in every direction," writes Jamie Slack on her blog, Totally the Bomb, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The attack took a whopping 17,000 actions on Hugging Face’s network, the company said in a blog post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Roughly a month ago, Stocktwits CEO and co-founder Howard Lindzon raised a red flag on his blog about chip stocks, selling down more than half of his semiconductor-index exposure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Write a blog or a letter to the editor.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
“But your blog also made me proud. I thought: She’s gone, she’s learned, and she’s conquered.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
More than a decade ago, a local data nerd was able to obtain taxi commission data and cross-reference it with photos on celebrity gossip blogs to purportedly show that some celebrities didn’t tip their drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Google also introduced search information agents, which will be able to scan blogs, news sites, social media, and more for data that they can send periodically to customers as updates.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
On the nouveau fashion blogs of Substack, women exchange styling ideas for the brand’s signature pierced mules.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Other financially independent parents are sharing similar stories in books, blogs and podcasts to provide an alternative to the high-cost, high-stress reality most families find themselves in.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 14, 2026
As uberblogger Glenn Reynolds likes to say, blogs have given the people a chance to stop yelling at their TV and have a say in the process.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience and technology at Amazon, had blogged that the company needed fewer layers and more ownership “to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026
She blogged and posted photos of herself doing push-ups on Instagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
“I think you’ve got fight-or-flight adrenaline response, so we were pretty wide-eyed and energetic for 24 hours,” said Hall, who blogged for The Times during the 2008 and 2010 Olympic Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
"Under this new default setting, teens can only be messaged or added to group chats by people they already follow or are connected", Meta blogged.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
She could have blogged about Kelsey, too, this girl who somehow believed that she was miraculously neutral in how she read books, while other people read emotionally.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The singer himself then got involved, posting on blogging platform Substack about how the video had heightened his insecurities and pushed him towards considering cosmetic surgery.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Tisdale French, meanwhile, apparently anticipated this kind of speculation in reaction to the New York essay because she had experienced it after blogging about the same topic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
That’s the concern of a former energy trader and now investor blogging on Substack as Fred’s Corner, with a focus on commodities.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
Her blogging and podcasting startup, supposedly a sophisticated answer to the failings of traditional news, quickly grew a reputation beyond its actual influence or usefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
He was working sixteen-hour shifts at the hospital, confining his blogging mainly to the hours between midnight and three in the morning.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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