as in historian
a student or writer of history
chroniclers who gave often conflicting accounts of battles, depending upon which side they favored
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Recent Examples of chronicler
Indeed, some chroniclers say the history of Pan Am and that of modern Miami are inseparable.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
The show is hosted by Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners and former US Secretary of Commerce, and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Semafor’s CEO Editor and veteran chronicler of global business.
—Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Tituba, one of the first women accused of being a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, was described by nineteenth-century chroniclers as a Black woman.
—Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Valdez, a renowned chronicler of cartel violence, was gunned down in 2017.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Its sources include medieval chroniclers, eccentric antiquaries, and no doubt many denizens of the British Museum’s Reading Room.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Geragos told me in August, as Combs was pursuing defamation complaints involving some of his most conspiratorial online chroniclers, that fighting her client’s case in the press didn’t come as naturally to her as to her father.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Spanish chroniclers documented some Inca stone-working techniques, including the use of stone tools and a process known as rock pecking.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
Dick Hickock was fair and twenty-eight, Perry Smith dark and thirty-one—close in age to their chronicler.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
The show is hosted by Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners and former US Secretary of Commerce, and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Semafor’s CEO Editor and veteran chronicler of global business.
—Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 20 Mar. 2026
Tituba, one of the first women accused of being a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, was described by nineteenth-century chroniclers as a Black woman.
—Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
Valdez, a renowned chronicler of cartel violence, was gunned down in 2017.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
Its sources include medieval chroniclers, eccentric antiquaries, and no doubt many denizens of the British Museum’s Reading Room.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Geragos told me in August, as Combs was pursuing defamation complaints involving some of his most conspiratorial online chroniclers, that fighting her client’s case in the press didn’t come as naturally to her as to her father.
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Jan. 2026
Spanish chroniclers documented some Inca stone-working techniques, including the use of stone tools and a process known as rock pecking.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
Dick Hickock was fair and twenty-eight, Perry Smith dark and thirty-one—close in age to their chronicler.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicler
historian
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Smooth Nzewi is an artist and art historian and the Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in the Painting and Sculpture Department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.—
Smooth Nzewi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Collected across multiple excavation projects, the items are offering historians an unprecedented look at life in the province of Gelderland–named after the legendary death rattle of a dragon–during Roman occupation.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Chronicler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicler. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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