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.
Vocabulary lists containing blog
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Example Sentences
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In the blog post, Gates laid out three key risks that AI poses, one being that many jobs will “disappear forever.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Live video is the latest way we’re updating teen accounts to meet the needs of families and build on existing safety features,” the company said in a blog that unveiled the livestream option Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Early test results show that once teens set the reminders, more than 90% of them keep them on," the blog post says.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Barnett's announcement came soon after she published a blog about the "hysterectomy I never wanted to have", external.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
There are a few pictures and a very out-of-date blog.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
Enthusiastic message boards, blogs dedicated to any niche you could find in any hobby, news and culture websites as renowned for sharp commenters as their stable of writers.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 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
“It’s going to be wrong,” said Andy Panko, a certified financial planner and educator who blogs, podcasts and runs a popular Facebook group through his platform Retirement Planning Education.
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 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
They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
While he blogged about students wasting time watching Netflix, he found something else to binge that would end up being far more important to his career: effective altruism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
During my eight-year imprisonment in Indonesian prison camps, I blogged anonymously about the refugees' living conditions, hoping to bring our plight to the world's attention.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
“It’s true. I wouldn’t have figured out that there was a name for who I am if Kaisha hadn’t blogged about being biromantic.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Tseng remembers going to coffee shops at 10 p.m. and blogging into the early hours of the morning.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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
Hollie also has skills in front of the camera, which she picked up while blogging about her university life on Youtube and social media.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 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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