chronology
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But despite its experiment with chronology, “A Potion, a Powder, a Little Bit of Magic” plays it safe when it comes to its plot—a surprise for readers expecting a story as adventuresome as its telling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Initially intriguing, the jumbled chronology eventually proves to be largely decorative until a disappointing late-reel twist explains why the labored device was deployed in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Others favor a long chronology, placing their arrival at least 65,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026
“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026
The first volume dealt with the interval from the Creation to the Flood, a period he took to be 432,000 years or about a hundred times longer than the Old Testament chronology.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing chronology
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