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hagiographer

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as in archivist

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Recent Examples of hagiographer 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 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

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Before archivists can preserve a record, the record must survive long enough to make it into their hands.

— Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
Inside the company's archives, corporate archivist Virginia Angles preserves more than 120 years of Kellogg history, including some of the marketing ideas that helped make the brand a household name.

— Rachelle Graham, CBS News, 29 June 2026

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George has been raised with as normal a childhood as possible given the circumstances, and royal biographer Robert Hardman told Hello!

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 22 July 2026
From an early age, Forster was in a hurry, and as his biographer, Wulf must dash along, too.

— Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026

Definition of biographer

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Baldwin is an amateur genealogist who has spent the last five years researching the identities of the roughly 2,200 people who are buried at Blake Street Cemetery, the vast majority of them in graves marked only with numbers.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026
As a genealogist, Baxter has helped over 150 people trace their ancestral roots through her organization Our Genetic Legacy, a nonprofit committed to uncovering the hidden histories of Black and Indigenous people.

— Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026

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