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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
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In January 2020, the three states that most recently ratified the ERA — Illinois, Nevada, and Virginia — sued the archivist in the District of Columbia in an attempt to get the court to force the National Archives to publish the amendment.—
Sarah Bedford,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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Those reels were later rediscovered in 2002 by Edwin and Arno Konings, Dutch twins and Sly and the Family Stone archivists, and carefully restored by co-producer Palao.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
5 June 2025
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In 2010, Beatty’s biographer Peter Biskind estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275, according to The Guardian.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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In addition to that, biographers have had to to sift through the myths Dylan has built up about his life story.—
Andrew Demillo,
Boston Herald,
15 June 2025
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Nonetheless, through a genealogist, Snooki learned who her birth mother was and eventually was able to have her first-ever conversation with her, seeing the woman’s face for the first time.—
Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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In 2023, the district attorney's office partnered with forensic genealogists at Parabon NanoLabs in an effort to identify her.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
28 May 2025
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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 6 Jul. 2025.
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