blog
Americannoun
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blogs
plural
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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.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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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 threat actor is likely a Chinese speaker and financially motivated," a CrowdStrike blog post said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
“We’ll all get better stuff,” he wrote in a blog post.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“By modernizing and upgrading turbines, steam generators, and digital control systems at operating plants, uprates deliver substantial capacity gains without the multi-year timelines or interconnection bottlenecks associated with greenfield construction,” the blog post noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
OpenAI also published details to its public blog.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a “leading blogger” about race.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Watching YouTube videos, reading blogs and working with an AI tutor can only take you so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
No Mommy blogs, no MomTok, no Momstagram for me.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
He embarked on what he calls a "defensive strategy", creating blogs about the best-selling products for the AI tools to reference.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
“I was Googling us again this morning, and all these blogs and posts started popping up. None of them are very nice.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
“He was outspoken, he wanted to do a good job,” said Larry Chafin, chief executive and chairman of Pluto Cloud Services, who blogged for Network World at the same time as Reese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
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
After his firing in October 2010, Folkes blogged about his experience on the show.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Dr Yang, who previously worked for China's Ministry of State Security, was a scholar and novelist in Australia who blogged about Chinese affairs.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
A high school graduation photo that showed a mouth full of braces and a bad haircut, posted by a grandmother who had blogged a total of three times.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
However, his supporters say he was targeted for blogging about alleged human rights abuses against the Sikh community in India and was coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Tseng remembers going to coffee shops at 10 p.m. and blogging into the early hours of the morning.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
But someone diagnosed in their 60s today may have been blogging in their 30s and was on a smartphone in their 40s and social media and speech-based devices, like an Alexa, in their 50s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 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
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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