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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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Almost 250 archivists have contributed to the project so far, and anyone is welcome to help document this wide and weird subsection of urban planning.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2026
Stern didn’t set out to become the internet’s bad-boss archivist.

— Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of archivist

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Low, a genealogist, uses the San Francisco archive for personal and professional research.

— Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
Riverside County District Attorney's Office From there, the victim's DNA profile was developed and uploaded to a direct-to-consumer ancestry database while a genealogist with RCCHT identified potential matches for close relatives.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

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Flynn biographer Jeffrey Meyers endorses the view that power politics and corruption fueled the case.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Harry’s surprise return to Britain has especially affected his older brother William, according to royal biographer Katie Nicholl.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 30 Aug. 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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