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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 chroniclers
Soon afterwards, Mavis would be up in Montparnasse watching the same chaotic flow, writing the first of the stories that would make her one of the century’s great chroniclers of exile and its varieties.
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Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
The Persian term Mughal, or Moghol, refers to people with Mongol roots; later chroniclers and local populations of India started calling the empire’s rulers by that name, as they were descended from the formidable Mongol conqueror.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
Indeed, some chroniclers say the history of Pan Am and that of modern Miami are inseparable.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 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
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
There may just be less for the chroniclers to reveal.
—Paul Farhi, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
The Persian term Mughal, or Moghol, refers to people with Mongol roots; later chroniclers and local populations of India started calling the empire’s rulers by that name, as they were descended from the formidable Mongol conqueror.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 2026
Indeed, some chroniclers say the history of Pan Am and that of modern Miami are inseparable.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 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
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
There may just be less for the chroniclers to reveal.
—Paul Farhi, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chroniclers
historians
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Lincoln's life and death had a lasting impact on the future president, historians Douglas Brinkley and Harold Holzer wrote in an exclusive piece for USA TODAY, tracing how a portrait of Lincoln later became Roosevelt's moral compass.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Military historians often consider the Higgins boat one of the key logistical inventions that enabled large-scale amphibious warfare in the 20th century.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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“Chroniclers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chroniclers. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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