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 This suspicion is undoubtedly warranted by the fact that Enwezor was not an art historian but a poet. Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 Lum always tries to connect with contacts from artistic, photographic and diasporic communities, or local historians and architects, before arriving. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025 But historian Tani Munz writes that American Adrian Wenner doubted Frisch’s theory itself, leading to a decades-long feud. Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 1 Oct. 2025 The 300-year-old coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck believed to have been part of the notorious 1715 Fleet, a group of about a dozen Spanish treasure ships that sank during a hurricane, historians say. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for historian
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chronicler
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  • Her site, which grew out of a blog about motherhood and home décor, had become perhaps the most popular chronicler of Kennedy’s rise, offering half a million Substack followers an inside look at the Secretary’s new life in the upper echelons of the American right.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Terms of the deal were not readily available, though both brands have established themselves as media companies targeting the intersection of culture, money, and power (both also frequently feature the writing of longtime Wall Street chronicler Bill Cohan).
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Historian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/historian. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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