chronologist

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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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Noun
  • As part of the gift, the Pacita Abad Art Estate has allocated funds to the Libraries to support a dedicated archivist who will catalog and digitize the materials, ensuring their long-term accessibility.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • During the group’s first few weeks, Leo Lewis O’Neil, a filmmaker from Los Angeles, offered to become the group’s archivist and filmed the three years of madness, eventually turning it into his directorial debut at Cannes.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The homicide case frustrated detectives in Sunnyvale for decades until 2019, when Hutchison, working with prosecutor and current cold-case supervisor Rob Baker, consulted with a DNA genealogist to find new leads.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 May 2025
  • After that case, several consumer DNA websites changed their terms of service to disallow law enforcement from accessing data, or to allow its users to opt out of law enforcement activity, according to genetic genealogist Leah Larkin, who testified in the hearing last month.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Now, a new update has been given about Rodgers and his current situation by his biographer.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • Buy Now 13 of 15 ‘Mark Twain’ by Ron Chernow The Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer returns with a compelling account of author Mark Twain, tracing his life from his Southern childhood to his acclaimed literary career.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • 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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“Chronologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronologist. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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