chronologists

noun

plural of chronologist
as in genealogists

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  1. archivists
  2. historians
Noun
  • 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
  • Publicly accessible early versions of some games released before this SteamPipe transition had been considered lost content by archivists, no longer accessible from Valve itself and living on only as local downloads on aging machines.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of archivists
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  • The tariffs are notorious among economists and historians for shutting down world commerce and making the Great Depression worse.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • For many cinephiles, film historians, and critics, Italian cinema is modern cinema.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of historians
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“Chronologists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronologists. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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