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Recent Examples of hagiographer
But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France.
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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
Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore.
—Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
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
Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore.
—Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hagiographer
Noun
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Granola was a unique ingredient in the initial American Beauty imperial pale ale, says David Lemieux, the Grateful Dead's archivist and legacy manager.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Our protagonist, museum archivist Sara Hussein, is stopped by government agents from the Risk Assessment Administration.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Historians and biographers work around archival gaps to delicately stitch together suppressed histories, but fiction writers can take more creative liberties to reconcile the past.—
Lauren LeBlanc,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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The $25,000 offering will see a genealogist build the nominee’s family tree back several generations and then walk them and their family through the findings. $305 worth of skincare products from Swiss brand INSTYTUTUM.—
Nicolas Vega,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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This development led law enforcement to collaborate with genealogists to reopen and continue investigating the cold case 16 years after the tragic event.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Hagiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographer. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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