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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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The announcement sparked uproar among local historian and archivists.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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But Campau is an archivist first and foremost.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
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However, some reports have suggested that B intimated to the biographer that the singer's bandmates and his best friend, Mary Austin, had been aware of her existence.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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According to the district attorney, an investigative genealogist with the Columbus Police Department traced the man’s DNA and identified McNulty as a potential suspect.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The district attorney’s office said an investigative genealogist then worked with the suspect's DNA profile and ultimately identified McNulty as the possible perpetrator.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 Sep. 2025.
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