chronologist

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Recent Examples of chronologist Work by dendro-chronologists and ice-core experts points to an enormous spasm of volcanic activity in the 530s and 540s CE, unlike anything else in the past few thousand years. Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
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Noun
  • In a Paris museum, an archivist risked her life to clandestinely record the looting of art treasures.
    Erin Douglass, Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2025
  • And David is like an archivist and has a fascination with collecting the old folk songs of America.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • However, Louisiana Creole genealogist and historian Jari Honora at the Historical New Orleans Collection has produced the documentation: Pope Leo XIV is, at least in part, an American descendant of enslaved Africans. Catholics who are racist will have much to muse on during Leo’s reign.
    Darryl Barthé, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • Nailing that down has become a goal for historians in the Caribbean, said Edwin Espinal Hernández, a genealogist and the director of the law school at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, a Roman Catholic university in the Dominican Republic.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • Those editorials were disgracefully wrong, but Buckley had changed by the 1960s, as WFB biographer Alvin Felzenberg has recounted at length and Tanenhaus acknowledges in the book.
    The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
  • The Pulitzer-winning biographer explores the life of the celebrated American writer. 5.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.
    Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020

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“Chronologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronologist. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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