chronologist

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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. Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
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Noun
  • The court documents don't indicate that any rare books were destroyed in this process—Anthropic purchased its books in bulk from major retailers—but archivists long ago established other ways to extract information from paper.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
  • Judge James Boasberg ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the acting archivist, to collect any Signal messages belonging to top Trump administration officials and refer them to the Justice Department.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • The research was a collaboration between the publication and genealogists from American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami.
    Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
  • Nonetheless, through a genealogist, Snooki learned who her birth mother was and eventually was able to have her first-ever conversation with her, seeing the woman’s face for the first time.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • At the age of 4, Laster was taught to read by her grandmother, something her close friend and biographer Holly Jenkins-Livers remarked was not only rare for a child that young, but especially so given the times.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • On July 1, The Times published an excerpt containing the claim made in a recent edition of royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Substack, Royals Extra.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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 13 Jul. 2025.

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