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Recent Examples of chronologist
Work by dendro-chronologists and ice-core experts points to an enormous spasm of volcanic activity in the 530s and 540s CE, unlike anything else in the past few thousand years.
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Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronologist
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That meant the restorers had to take imperfect left sides of other inferior prints and digitally stitch them onto the Paramount print, a process that took several years and the efforts of dozens of archivists at multiple institutions.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
22 Apr. 2025
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At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to help hold together a ledger.—
Alan Yuhas,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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With this new information, officials — including volunteer genealogist Deborah Medina — were able to identify the missing girl.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The $25,000 offering will see a genealogist build the nominee’s family tree back several generations and then walk them and their family through the findings.—
Nicolas Vega,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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Years later, Cassandra burned the vast majority of her younger sister’s 3,000 letters, leaving only around 160 for the benefit of researchers, biographers and Janeites, as the author’s devotees are known.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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Austen Ivereigh, Pope Francis' biographer, also told BBC News that coins minted during his papacy - one for each year of his 12-year tenure - will have been placed in a bag in his coffin.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.—
Stephen Kotkin,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2024
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William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.—
Talia Lavin,
The New Republic,
29 Sep. 2020
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“Chronologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronologist. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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