annal(s)

Example Sentences

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The name Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has long carried a black mark in the annals of science.

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One day, these dynastic annals may form part of the historically literate man or woman’s mental furniture—we are not there yet.

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The number forever etched Adebayo’s name into the annals of individual basketball brilliance.

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In the recorded annals of puffin military campaigns, never did a puffin march into battle with such dignified grit.

From Literature

Cooling their heels in a Venetian jail in 1755, Giacomo Casanova and the prisoner in the cell above him contrived one of the more imaginative escapes in the annals of criminology.

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