as in historian
a student or writer of history
chroniclers who gave often conflicting accounts of battles, depending upon which side they favored
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Recent Examples of chronicler
As an alum of The Washington Post’s crackerjack sports desk of decades past, she is best known as an ace author, whose trilogy of biographies—of Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth—ensure her place in the first division of the baseball chroniclers.
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Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Here is where Orwell became radicalized by empathy, inching one step closer to being a sharp chronicler of misery, humanity, and his era.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Her site, which grew out of a blog about motherhood and home décor, had become perhaps the most popular chronicler of Kennedy’s rise, offering half a million Substack followers an inside look at the Secretary’s new life in the upper echelons of the American right.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Terms of the deal were not readily available, though both brands have established themselves as media companies targeting the intersection of culture, money, and power (both also frequently feature the writing of longtime Wall Street chronicler Bill Cohan).
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
Gotham’s streetwise chronicler of fashion trends is the focus of this feature doc lovingly produced by Philip Gefter, an alum of the New York Times, where Cunningham worked for nearly 40 years.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Here is where Orwell became radicalized by empathy, inching one step closer to being a sharp chronicler of misery, humanity, and his era.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Her site, which grew out of a blog about motherhood and home décor, had become perhaps the most popular chronicler of Kennedy’s rise, offering half a million Substack followers an inside look at the Secretary’s new life in the upper echelons of the American right.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Terms of the deal were not readily available, though both brands have established themselves as media companies targeting the intersection of culture, money, and power (both also frequently feature the writing of longtime Wall Street chronicler Bill Cohan).
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
Gotham’s streetwise chronicler of fashion trends is the focus of this feature doc lovingly produced by Philip Gefter, an alum of the New York Times, where Cunningham worked for nearly 40 years.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicler
historian
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Most historians believe Gunness would first poison her suitors, then finish them with an ax or by bludgeoning — afterward dismembering the corpses and burying what remained.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Modern scholarship on its formative role in women’s lives, and vice versa, took an important turn in 1980, when two young historians published landmark books on the subject—second books, because each had been told that a dissertation on a topic quite so pots-and-pans wouldn’t do.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Chronicler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicler. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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