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chroniclers

noun

plural of chronicler

as in historians

a student or writer of history chroniclers who gave often conflicting accounts of battles, depending upon which side they favored

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Recent Examples of chroniclers Later chroniclers say he was first struck by an arrow—some specifying the eye—and then killed in close combat. — Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026 Many chroniclers were churchmen, and the church was among the rebels’ targets. — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026 Jeff Nichols is not only one of cinema’s foremost chroniclers of the American South, but is doing his damnedest to revitalize the film scene in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026 Colonial chroniclers recorded epidemics, but their descriptions cannot always identify the responsible pathogen or follow its spread through Indigenous communities. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 30 July 2026 Abu Sitta has become one of the most prolific chroniclers of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba and one of the most forceful advocates for Palestinian return. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 For decades, Spielberg has been one of our foremost chroniclers of America’s fascination with aliens, touching on the topic in films like 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1981’s ET. — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 19 June 2026 History’s chroniclers are watching. — Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026 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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historians

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In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire.

— Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Cooking, which historians generally consider the first form of food processing, goes back as far as 2 million years.

— Garrett M. Broad, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

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