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
  • Some argue that enough states have now approved the amendment, but the U.S. archivist declined to certify it because Congress explicitly set a deadline for ratification that states did not meet.
    Phoebe Petrovic, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Trump fired the archivist of the United States and expunged the boards of visitors of every service academy.
    Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The genealogists interviewed and tested the DNA of thousands of people.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In the case of Edwards, Beaumont detective Tina Lewallen and genetic genealogist Shera LaPoint helped create a family tree that led to a suspect named Clayton Foreman, who had grown up in Beaumont and attended the same high school as the victim, Edwards.
    Paige Harriss, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • That lets a biographer build a picture with real subtlety, complexity and accuracy.
    Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The billionaire Peter Thiel has been compared to Dugin by the latter’s biographer.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 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 6 Apr. 2025.

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