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
  • Co-curator and Ruocco archivist Todd Pitman provided us with truly remarkable color film footage — now digitized — of the Design Center site and building under construction in 1949.
    Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After taking an Ancestry DNA test and hiring a genealogist, Stunna met his father (who attended the wedding) and grandfather for the first time in June.
    Nathan Vinson, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Someone uploaded their genetic profile to the Family Tree DNA database, allowing genealogists to look deeper into the unidentified woman’s family tree.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, President Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley compared Ingrassia to the Democratic nominee to become Virginia’s next attorney general, Jay Jones.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Although Fawnie doesn’t have any notable namesakes, the late biographer Fawn Brodie was one of the first female professors at UCLA, and artist Fawn Krieger is a recent recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant.
    Sarah Scott, Parents, 14 Oct. 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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