biographers

noun

plural of biographer
as in autobiographers

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  1. historians
  2. chroniclers
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  • The tariffs are notorious among economists and historians for shutting down world commerce and making the Great Depression worse.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • For many cinephiles, film historians, and critics, Italian cinema is modern cinema.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of historians
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  • Jeff Nichols is not only one of cinema’s foremost chroniclers of the American South, but is doing his damnedest to revitalize the film scene in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Colonial chroniclers recorded epidemics, but their descriptions cannot always identify the responsible pathogen or follow its spread through Indigenous communities.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 30 July 2026
Definition of chroniclers
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