yearbook
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of yearbook
Explanation
The album of photos that many high schools and colleges offer students at the end of each school year is a yearbook. If you want to be sure to get your picture in the yearbook, join a lot of clubs and teams. A traditional yearbook is a large, bound book organized by class, which includes a photograph of every student. Most yearbooks also feature pictures of teams, school groups and clubs, faculty members, staff, and candid photos taken throughout the school year. In many schools, it's traditional to get your yearbook signed by friends and even teachers. Yearbooks have become less common over the years, as digital equivalents have increased in popularity. Online yearbooks may eventually replace the printed version.
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Not even in a photo album or yearbook.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
So, in my high school yearbook, under my picture, it says, “Plans to be a chef.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Well-written essays introduce each chapter; long captions for family and team photos function as yearbook entries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2025
At 22 she interviewed at a local magazine: Instead of clippings, she brought in her high-school yearbook, which she had edited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
It took a few pages, but she finally realized that of course she wouldn’t find James Parker in the student section of the yearbook.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
At first, she juggled classes with Fusion Books, an online platform she’d started to help students to create and design yearbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Private credit players may no longer rate as Most Popular in investors’ yearbooks, but they’ll still be there next year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Comments from Facebook school group chats described memories that included signing shoes, hoodies and yearbooks at the end of term, with some students having kept their shirts after leaving school.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
They left signed jerseys in their teammates’ lockers like classmates inscribing yearbooks after the school year, except the end came much more suddenly than any planned graduation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
Sheed sighed, quick counting the dozens of yearbooks scattered on the floor.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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