historian
Example Sentences
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"Presidents have often offered timelines to buy time with the public" during wars, said Thomas Patterson, a historian at the Harvard Kennedy School, "and almost all of them underestimate the time."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
In only a few volumes Alan Allport has become the historian of Britain at war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
But Lord Roberts, a historian, has argued the Earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain should be allowed to keep their hereditary seats in the Lords.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
In a globalized world, there is a sense among Jews that, unlike the past, there is no far-flung land to escape to, said Sara Hirschhorn, a historian at the University of Haifa in Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
"Black people knew that education was important,” wrote one historian, "because under slavery the law had rigidly denied it to them.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.