Definition of chronicle
1 : a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation a chronicle of the Civil War
2 : narrative 1 a chronicle of the struggle against drug traffickers
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Examples of chronicle in a Sentence
a chronicle of the American Civil War
a chronicle of the President's years in office
Recent Examples of chronicle from the Web
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Chronicles in Cuba John Cullen, a junior at U-D Jesuit, will periodically chronicle his travel baseball team’s historic trip to Cuba for the Free Press.
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Those shoes were filled, and then some, by this haunting chronicle of the decades-old unsolved murder of a nun which may or may not have been covered up by the Catholic Church.
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More than that, though, Morrison's documentary is a history of the film medium itself, a chronicle of loss after loss and, miraculously, a few survivors.
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In her masterly chronicle of American mass incarceration, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues convincingly that our current era is defined by its continuity with previous eras of white supremacy and black oppression.
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Her 160 career RBI are also fifth in conference history and second in Matadors chronicle.
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Unlike newspapers and their magazines, which chronicle life in its natural state — think Idaho Statesman and Treasure, for example — home design publications adjust reality.
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In a feature for The Fader published Tuesday (June 6), writer Ben Dandridge-Lemco and photographer Akasha Rabut chronicle the rise of party buses in post-Katrina New Orleans, a trend that began with Andrew Honeycutt, also known as DJ Whatever.
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The Chronicle on Higher Education reports that in December the undergraduate team will launch a small experiment to test the viability of brewer’s yeast on the low gravity lunar surface.
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Origin and Etymology of chronicle
Middle English cronicle, from Anglo-French, alteration of chronike, from Latin chronica, from Greek chronika, from neuter plural of chronikos —see chronic
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Definition of chronicle
chronicled
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\-k(ə-)liŋ\transitive verb
: to present a record of in or as if in a chronicle chronicle Victorian society chronicle the doings of the rich and famous
Examples of chronicle in a Sentence
The book chronicles the events that led to the American Civil War.
She intends to chronicle the broad social changes that have occurred in this part of the country.
a magazine that chronicles the lives of the rich and famous
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As Thomas notes, the abuses can be horrifying: This system — where police can seize property with limited judicial oversight and retain it for their own use — has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses.
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Shouhed and Parido’s entire relationship has been chronicled on the hit Bravo show, from their first date to their March 2015 wedding in Los Angeles.
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Last year, in commemoration of its 100th anniversary, the camp chronicled its history in a new book.
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In his room—adorned in stoner-bro decor, with psychedelic posters on the wall and video games strewn about—Edith finds a letter from Lewis' psychiatrist, chronicling the young man's slow and complete withdrawal from the world.
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In a YouTube video chronicling Morrison’s feat, he is seen shooting off a dirt hillside and soaring over a moving train.
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The Pacquiao-Horn fight, as SI’s Greg Bishop chronicled here, was all kinds of crazy, with most boxing observers believing Pacquiao was robbed.
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Other reasons include numerous lawsuits after a decade of allegations and charges of sexual and physical abuse at what was Philadelphia’s only residential treatment center for troubled youth, as chronicled by the Inquirer and Daily News in April.
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Official studies by the Japanese government and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chronicled a poor safety culture that had discounted the likelihood of a criticality accident.
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Origin and Etymology of chronicle
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CHRONICLE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of chronicle for English Language Learners
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: a description of events in the order that they happened
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Definition of chronicle for English Language Learners
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: to describe a series of events in the order that they happened
CHRONICLE Defined for Kids
Word Root of chronicle
The Greek word chronos, meaning “time,” gives us the root chron. Words from the Greek chronos have something to do with time. The chronological order of events is the order in which they happened in time. Anything that is chronic lasts for a very long time. A chronicle is a telling of events in the order in which they happened in time.
Definition of chronicle for Students
chronicled
;chronicling
: to record in the order of occurrence This chapter chronicles the events leading to the American Revolution.
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