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.
verb (used without 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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In one conversation from April, a user prompted Claude to draft an unpublished blog post about cloud security involving details of a corporate project.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
His blog, they argued, raised the public’s awareness and understanding of the high court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Write a blog or a letter to the editor.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
The model weights will be made available by July 27, Moonshot shared in a blog post.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Her articles are what got La Cocina de la Isla recognized internationally,” I said, because I had read Carmen’s mom’s food blog.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
“You can expect to pay considerably more for a good long cable than a good short cable,” says Ken Shirriff, a former Google software engineer who blogs about computer history and electronics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
In the years since I’d first started reading Arty’s Missives, it had become one of the most popular blogs on the Internet, now logging several million hits a day.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
“If you have already been arrested, you’re not the first call we’ve taken this month,” he blogged in May, “and you won’t be the last.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
On 4 October, Mr Altman blogged that the firm had been "learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rights holders, and other interested groups".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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
Ifemelu blogged about this story, describing the silver streaks in the woman’s gray hair, the fingers quivering from Parkinson’s, as though she herself had been there with Blaine.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It turns out the extreme and obsessive Portnoy is perfect for blogging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 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
In February last year, Australian writer Yang Hengjun, known for blogging about human rights issues in China, was handed a suspended death sentence on espionage charges.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025
When she refused, they copied the post to a blogging website, backdated it, and then claimed she had plagiarized it in an example of copyright infringement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
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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