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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Ah’Mari said he had little interest in typical high-school activities like prom or yearbook and kept his eyes on “the finish line”—his NIL deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Not even in a photo album or yearbook.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
He was shooting photos for the school yearbook at Crespi’s Southern Section Division 1 baseball playoff game.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2025
Mom laughs and turns another page of the yearbook.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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
The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading “1988 World Champions,” with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
I've scoured digitized yearbooks from the local high schools, and they've yielded nothing more than a lot of late '80s hair inspiration.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
I glance at my bookshelf—the yearbooks, my shoebox of notes and cards from David.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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