as in chroniclers
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 historians
There are 70 structures to explore, and what sets it apart from sites such as Angkor Wat is the construction techniques – the Cham people used red bricks decorated with intricate carvings, and historians have failed to work out how these bricks were fired.
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Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
His plan was inspired by a 1954 operation that historians have said ultimately did not work.
—CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
But the move immediately drew protest from Democrats and some in the Kennedy family along with questions from scholars and historians about whether the move was legally permissible.
—ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026
The Raceway, which operated from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, featured a quarter-mile track at the Wally Smith farm, a mile-and-a-half west of town on Route 34 that was drawing three times the village’s total population for races during its heyday, local historians have said.
—Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Some historians of a more conservative bent have reacted strongly against those earlier, broadly accepted cultural approaches.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
So now, in general, in history, and historians of science even more so, don't talk a lot about domestic staff in their histories.
—Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
Nero was widely blamed for the disaster, with accusers claiming that the emperor started the fire to bypass the senate and rebuild Rome to his liking, though modern historians believe the fire was accidental.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
For decades, reporters, activists, historians and others who formed the narrative of Chicano civil rights treated her as a modern-day Mary Magdalene — a woman who found purpose by following a man.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
His plan was inspired by a 1954 operation that historians have said ultimately did not work.
—CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
But the move immediately drew protest from Democrats and some in the Kennedy family along with questions from scholars and historians about whether the move was legally permissible.
—ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026
The Raceway, which operated from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, featured a quarter-mile track at the Wally Smith farm, a mile-and-a-half west of town on Route 34 that was drawing three times the village’s total population for races during its heyday, local historians have said.
—Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Some historians of a more conservative bent have reacted strongly against those earlier, broadly accepted cultural approaches.
—Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
So now, in general, in history, and historians of science even more so, don't talk a lot about domestic staff in their histories.
—Mariel Carr, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2026
Nero was widely blamed for the disaster, with accusers claiming that the emperor started the fire to bypass the senate and rebuild Rome to his liking, though modern historians believe the fire was accidental.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
For decades, reporters, activists, historians and others who formed the narrative of Chicano civil rights treated her as a modern-day Mary Magdalene — a woman who found purpose by following a man.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for historians
chroniclers
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Indeed, some chroniclers say the history of Pan Am and that of modern Miami are inseparable.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Tituba, one of the first women accused of being a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, was described by nineteenth-century chroniclers as a Black woman.—
Geraldo Cadava,
New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Historians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/historians. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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