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Recent Examples of chronicle
Noun
But that framing isn’t asserted early or forcefully enough to be convincing, so what might have been a fascinating and somber study of an elderly woman seeking connection after the death of her closest friend becomes an uneven and sometimes trying chronicle of a pretty weird scheme. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025 This designer and mother of two inspires social media followers with a chronicle of her family’s cozy, colorful, and charming home in Salt Lake City, Utah. Eleni N. Gage, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2025
Verb
Economic historians have chronicled the centuries-long losing battle fought by Roman emperors to stabilize and expand the sources of tax revenue that kept the state solvent. Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025 Molly Davis, The Tennessean's growth and development reporter, left the breaking news beat to join the business team in 2022 and has quickly become a trusted voice chronicling the fast-changing face of Nashville. Sandy Mazza, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for chronicle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicle
Noun
  • Pain, in these lines, is the enemy of story—of chronology, and maybe even of creativity itself.
    Willing Davidson, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • The film unfolds in five chapters from across five years of Agnes’ life, told out of chronology.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
Verb
  • Robert Shireman, a former Obama-era Education Department official, described the process as the higher-ed equivalent of filing taxes.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 July 2025
  • These are some of the ways people have described their experience.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • His story hit just as Pastel QAnon — a softer, Instagram-friendly offshoot of the movement — was flourishing.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
  • All credit to Kim Rosenstock and Liz Meriwether for their magnificent scripts that brought Molly and Nikki’s story to life.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The man who allegedly killed 18-year-old Morgan Hill resident Marissa DiNapoli has been charged with murder as new details emerge about the case, according to Santa Clara County court records.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
  • Officers with the Windsor Police Department also arrested Ricciardi in April and charged him with risk of injury to a child and breach of peace after investigating similar allegations from 2023, involving a student at a previous school where Ricciardi worked, according to court records.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Nobody told them to take the president off the stage.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 July 2025
  • Choosing which works to show and which stories to tell.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Last weekend’s 4-3 loss to the Houston Dynamo at Snapdragon Stadium may go down as the first gut-punch in franchise history.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • Michael Bitzer, a history and politics professor at Catawba College in North Carolina, watched Republicans and Democrats spar over disaster recovery efforts in his own state after Hurricane Helene.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • His mother, Tammy Martin, stood off to the side, smoking a cigarette, her salt-and-pepper hair in a ponytail, as her son recounted his decisions from a decade ago.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2025
  • Survivors recount their harrowing encounters with massive sharks, where some emerged miraculously unscathed and others were less fortunate.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • That is the total number of followers the Elmo account had on X as of early Monday morning.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Another $460 million would be cut from assistance to Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia, an account created in the 1990s to help former Soviet states transition away from communism.
    The Editors, National Review, 14 July 2025

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“Chronicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicle. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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