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chronologist

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as in archivist

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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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Jolanda, a retired archivist, stood on a stage in the late 1970s alongside his friend Mummo in Finland’s first drag show, Happy Gays, which drew much attention and big audiences.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026
The archivist explained to me that this was a concert that David had commissioned in 1978, and the materials hadn’t been touched in nearly 40 years.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026

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The database contains just shy of 33 million individual records, according to Caitlin Hollander Waas, chief genealogist at the Museum's Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Research Center.

— Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Low, a genealogist, uses the San Francisco archive for personal and professional research.

— Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

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According to Capra biographer Sam Wasson, the 83-year-old director made the trip from Southern California and sent along his own print to screen.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
All this challenges a biographer who would plumb Casey’s decades as chief executive.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of biographer

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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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