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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 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 The Persian term Mughal, or Moghol, refers to people with Mongol roots; later chroniclers and local populations of India started calling the empire’s rulers by that name, as they were descended from the formidable Mongol conqueror. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Apr. 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 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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The tariffs are notorious among economists and historians for shutting down world commerce and making the Great Depression worse.

— Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
For many cinephiles, film historians, and critics, Italian cinema is modern cinema.

— Erik Morse, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026

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