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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Noun
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Dick Hickock was fair and twenty-eight, Perry Smith dark and thirty-one—close in age to their chronicler.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026 -
There may just be less for the chroniclers to reveal.—
Paul Farhi,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2026
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The late Little is credited by architectural historians and UM itself with a key role in shaping the Coral Gables campus in a Modernist style once the school moved there from temporary quarters elsewhere in the Gables at the end of World War II.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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Both the Americans and Germans built weather stations on Greenland, starting what historians refer to as the weather war.—
Paul Bierman,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Annalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annalist. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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