chronologies

noun

plural of chronology
as in histories
a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened in his chronology of their relationship, they had communication problems right from the start

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Recent Examples of chronologies Plaintiff attorneys have built similar tools capable of producing polished demand letters, medical chronologies, and settlement ranges using massive legal datasets. — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026 The Southern Sinagua people, hardy folk who lived in the area from about 1150 to around 1400, drew them to mark major happenings in their world, keep chronologies of celestial events or map out favorite Verde River hotspots. — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 23 Dec. 2025 This requires a set of skills to interrogate the past by probing deeply, constructing and reconstructing chronologies, and contemplating counterfactuals in which different decisions might have significantly altered subsequent events. — John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronologies
  1. histories
  2. stories
  3. records
  4. accounts
  5. versions
  6. narratives
  7. narrations
Noun
  • In cargo shippers’ databases, the histories and current cargo of containers are recorded and accessible via their respective codes.
    — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
  • Though Porzingis is only 31 and Melton just turned 28, the trio combined to play exactly one back-to-back set while the team remained highly cautious with their workload due to their injury histories.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of histories
Noun
  • Horrific news stories about hospitals making choices about who received treatment began to shape her story.
    — Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
  • As with any prestige product or famous brand, many stories have been created around champagne, sometimes to increase the mystique, sometimes in an effort to explain things that are not easy to understand, sometimes to make complicated things simple.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of stories
Noun
  • But more than a year of his time (worth $420,000 per his contract) is unaccounted for in the public records the city has released, Thad and Riley found.
    — Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
  • According to the Department of Education’s own records, of 385,000 purchases made with voucher dollars, 84,000 violated the rules governing what is allowed.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of records
Noun
  • Brett also shared a special pre-recorded message that was posted on the club’s social media accounts.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • There are $1,000 seed amounts for individual accounts and tax advantages.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of accounts
Noun
  • Other favorites include the Mark Cuban, the Weinberger Reuben, and other Italian-style sub sandwiches that also come in Americanized versions, like Northeastern and Midwest-style sub sandwiches.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • Viewers can see digital versions of the photos on an interactive screen, as the original copy is kept in a display case.
    — Kaitlyn Harvey, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of versions
Noun
  • This perspective suggests that structural partisan advantage and voter registration patterns were decisive factors, countering narratives that place determinative weight on late-campaign tactical gambits.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
  • Mike Marinella, an NRCC spokesperson, pushed back on Democratic midterm narratives.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of narratives
Noun
  • Among the popular narrations are those read by Ian McKellen, Claire Danes, Dan Stevens, Stephen Fry, Anthony Heald and Benedict Cumberbatch.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The Cleveland native moved to New York in 1981 and worked as a freelance national voice-over artist until his retirement in 2021, heard on thousands of commercials, promos and narrations over those four decades.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of narrations

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