chronicling

verb

present participle of chronicle
as in describing
to give an oral or written account of in some detail the book chronicles the efforts of two climbers to scale Mount Everest

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Recent Examples of chronicling Vellas will follow up a true crime hit with another real-life story by chronicling the 1988 accident, when the Bateau Mouche IV boat sank in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay, killing 55 people. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 From a book chronicling a legendary Auburn football season to the Thunderbirds roaring back into Mather, Sacramento-area readers have plenty to track this Friday. — Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Longtime Billboard contributor Fred Bronson spent more than a decade writing Billboard‘s Chart Beat column, chronicling the artists, songs and records making waves on the charts. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2026 Historians chronicling the decline and fall of humanity will have any number of key moments to point to as the beginning of the end. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026 The film examines urbanism and architecture and lives up to its title by chronicling the history of concrete in an absurdist fashion (Wilson tries to make the film in the style of a Hallmark movie). — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2026 Bluntly has been chronicling her divorce, from the tradwife brand and her husband. — Christina Wyman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 The bookshelf in our king-bedroom suite featured a variety of titles - from coffee table books chronicling early twentieth-century Miami to art history books to beachy novels. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026 Both have over 100,000 social media followers, amassed by chronicling their high-society lifestyle and their beauty. — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicling
  1. describing
  2. recounting
  3. telling
  4. relating
  5. narrating
Verb
  • Paxton has contrasted himself and Talarico from the campaign trail — describing the Democrat as radical — and touts his work as attorney general, including battling big government and big corporations.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Trump opened his remarks there by describing how the new jet parked behind him was a gift from the Qatari royal family.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of describing
Verb
  • Without recounting every amusing or harrowing detail, a good deal of interactive psychological grilling ensued.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • At the outset of Wednesday’s hearing, Judge Kaplan acknowledged the keen interest in LIV’s Chapter 11 case, recounting how he had been bombarded over the weekend at his golf club about what would happen next.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of recounting
Verb
  • The ad also accuses his Democratic opponent, Brian Poindexter, of telling lies about him.
    — Lara Korte The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Our weak college presidents have avoided telling the truth for too long.
    — Bruce Svare, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of telling
Verb
  • Conflict with Indigenous peoples on the Maine frontier had sent traumatized refugees into the region, relating horror stories of attacks on their homes.
    — Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Vollmann was also pessimistic, relating that feeling comes from more than America’s current political issues, but also from the world’s environmental problems.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of relating
Verb
  • Related Stories After narrating several episodes with a history of women with the TK gene, which gives Carrie her telekinetic abilities, Adelaide is revealed as the person interviewing the survivors of the prom night fire.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Pacino, Sharon Stone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger all worked with Garcia from their homes—as did Streisand, who spent three months narrating My Name Is Barbra.
    — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of narrating

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“Chronicling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicling. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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