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annalist

noun

ˈa-nə-list

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as in chronicler

a student or writer of history a new book by America's best-known annalist of the Civil War

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Recent Examples of annalist And behind this choice is a more profound question: Are biographers storytellers or annalists? —

Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2026

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For decades, Spielberg has been one of our foremost chroniclers of America’s fascination with aliens, touching on the topic in films like 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1981’s ET.

— Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 19 June 2026
History’s chroniclers are watching.

— Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026

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Netanyahu, the son of a historian, grew up in Jerusalem’s elite circles and served in the military’s prestigious Sayeret Matkal commando unit.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
Making the Case As historian Carl Becker observed in his influential study of the declaration, the document was never meant to provide a balanced or comprehensive inventory of Colonial complaints.

— Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026