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historian

noun

hi-ˈstȯr-ē-ən

as in chronicler

a student or writer of history historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks

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Recent Examples of historian These small towns formerly relied on coal mining, steelworks and manufacturing for work, local historian Peter Fleetwood tells CNN. —

Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 From now on, what historians once formulated as hypotheses can be tested, visualized, and sometimes even reassessed through AI. —

Roberto Prieto, Variety, 17 June 2026 Ed Burke, 14th, then the City Council’s unofficial historian. —

A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026 The earliest historians of midwifery argued that this was a progressive story of the triumph of expertise and science and reason over the superstitions and backward practices of untrained female midwives. —

Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for historian

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chronicler

Noun

History’s chroniclers are watching.

— Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026
Soon afterwards, Mavis would be up in Montparnasse watching the same chaotic flow, writing the first of the stories that would make her one of the century’s great chroniclers of exile and its varieties.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026