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
  • The archivist of the United States, who oversees the National Archives and Records Administration, is typically an apolitical role that receives little attention.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Xavier University archivist Lester Sullivan sent it to OperaCréole founder and artistic director Givonna Joseph a year later.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This development led law enforcement to collaborate with genealogists to reopen and continue investigating the cold case 16 years after the tragic event.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But people who want access to the Library’s data must collect it via the API, a portal through which anyone, from a genealogist to an AI researcher, can download data.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Marshall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who specializes in trailblazing American women, including 19th-century journalist Margaret Fuller and midcentury poet Elizabeth Bishop.
    April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Party was targeting a biographer, an investigative reporter, a political commentator, and a legal correspondent.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 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 22 Feb. 2025.

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