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Recent Examples of hagiographer
But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.
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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
Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore.
—Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
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
Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore.
—Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographer
Noun
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Ellen Kramer is a lonely film archivist restoring a snuff film that was thought to be destroyed in a fire after WWII.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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That's according to Stacey Peeples, the hospital's curator and archivist.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
25 May 2026
Noun
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Romano’s sturdy book may not stint on examples of Mary’s bad behavior—including a ferociously jealous verbal assault, near the end of the war, on the wife of a prominent Union general—but the biographer keeps tilting against those who slighted Mary in even the most superficial ways.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While Goodman’s paradoxes and fantasies posed challenges to me as her biographer, with the advent of AI slop and ChatGPT, our courtship with illusion (and possibly delusion) is here to stay.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
Noun
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Costs increase for those hiring an attorney or genealogist.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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But costs will climb for those seeking help from an attorney or genealogist.—
Sarah Raza,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Hagiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographer. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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