biographers

noun

plural of biographer
as in autobiographers

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  1. historians
  2. chroniclers
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  • In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Cooking, which historians generally consider the first form of food processing, goes back as far as 2 million years.
    — Garrett M. Broad, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of historians
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  • Later chroniclers say he was first struck by an arrow—some specifying the eye—and then killed in close combat.
    — Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Many chroniclers were churchmen, and the church was among the rebels’ targets.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of chroniclers
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