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 job of digital archivists is a difficult one, especially with a backlog of sites that have existed across the evolution of internet standards.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Still, many argue that even if Biden were to instruct the archivist to sign the amendment, the victory might be short lived.
    Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The $25,000 offering will see a genealogist build the nominee’s family tree back several generations and then walk them and their family through the findings. $305 worth of skincare products from Swiss brand INSTYTUTUM.
    Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Listen to this article Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
  • In this slim volume of essays, Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, turns inward, reflecting on her discovery of old personal paraphernalia, including letters and photographs.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 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 3 Mar. 2025.

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