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chronologist

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as in archivist

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Recent Examples of chronologist Work by dendro-chronologists and ice-core experts points to an enormous spasm of volcanic activity in the 530s and 540s CE, unlike anything else in the past few thousand years. — Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017

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Publicly accessible early versions of some games released before this SteamPipe transition had been considered lost content by archivists, no longer accessible from Valve itself and living on only as local downloads on aging machines.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026
Kemerer became the unofficial archivist of Los Angeles’s king of house moving, George Kress, after buying Kress’s former home.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026

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Low, a genealogist, uses the San Francisco archive for personal and professional research.

— Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
Riverside County District Attorney's Office From there, the victim's DNA profile was developed and uploaded to a direct-to-consumer ancestry database while a genealogist with RCCHT identified potential matches for close relatives.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

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Flynn biographer Jeffrey Meyers endorses the view that power politics and corruption fueled the case.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Harry’s surprise return to Britain has especially affected his older brother William, according to royal biographer Katie Nicholl.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 30 Aug. 2026

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But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.

— Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb.

— Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020

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