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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Timing of presidential physicals In the modern era, presidents have typically undergone one annual physical examination per year — similar to the practice many Americans follow, according to White House historians.
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return, about a Syrian historian living in exile in Marseilles, who travels to Damascus to retrieve the remains of his younger brother, who was shot as freedom fighter, and move them to the north in accordance with ancestral traditions.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
Mark Langill, the Dodgers’ resident historian, has watched many more.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return, about a Syrian historian living in exile in Marseilles, who travels to Damascus to retrieve the remains of his younger brother, who was shot as freedom fighter, and move them to the north in accordance with ancestral traditions.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
Mark Langill, the Dodgers’ resident historian, has watched many more.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for historian
chronicler
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As an alum of The Washington Post’s crackerjack sports desk of decades past, she is best known as an ace author, whose trilogy of biographies—of Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth—ensure her place in the first division of the baseball chroniclers.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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Here is where Orwell became radicalized by empathy, inching one step closer to being a sharp chronicler of misery, humanity, and his era.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Historian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/historian. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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