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.
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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 a blog post late Monday, Character.ai said it has “taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve” its “business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But the “gamblers” comment strikes at an essential truth, said Wolf Richter of the Wolf Street blog.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
In a breezy July 2023 essay on his blog GatesNotes, he told everyone to chill out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Now that we have tangible proof of the possibilities, we want to do everything we can to accelerate the future," Li said in a blog post.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Or perhaps she was on her laptop, working on the blog.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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
Galvan, whose husband was also unemployed after a tech layoff, eventually enrolled in graduate school and currently works part-time as a writing tutor and editor of various blogs and journals at San Jose State University.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 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
None of the articles and blogs are any help—he’s saying the same thing in all of them, and people are painting him as either a freak or an oracle.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
“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
“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
After his firing in October 2010, Folkes blogged about his experience on the show.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Because he had last known her when she knew little of the things she blogged about, he felt a sense of loss, as though she had become a person he would no longer recognize.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The blogging baseball fan Robert Kopecky points out that at that time the sport’s popularity had soared, with average attendance per game doubling to more than 31,000 from about 15,500 over the previous two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
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
Blaine might have been more forgiving if she had simply forgotten, if she had been so submerged in reading or blogging that the protest had slipped from her mind.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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