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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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Ms. Barker’s chronicle teems with people I would gently describe as not normal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

So did this project start out as a chronicle of discovery and processing this information with your dad?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

"The bigger vision is to stitch all of this together into a coherent timeline," Hennawi said: "a quasar chronicle of the first billion years."

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

American museums that chronicle slavery increasingly focus on enslaved people’s community-building skills and entrepreneurial abilities.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

It’s a chronicle of a life: Bubbe’s life?

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The artwork, which chronicles scenes from the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the start of the Norman Conquest of England, was held in a shock-proof and temperature controlled case to protect the delicate embroidery.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

She also started a Substack newsletter called “Finding Claire-ity,” where she openly chronicles her life and struggles on the tour.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

The landscape inspired the author C. S. Lewis to create his fictional land Narnia, the setting for his chronicles including, most famously, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Alas, the results are mixed, betraying the stark limits of this approach and the need for a kind of history that fully integrates anguished medieval chronicles with modern molecular evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Part essay, part documentary archive, it chronicled the discoveries she made as a private investigator and her attempt to renew her PI license that fall.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

A self-proclaimed feminist, Mr. Trudeau sympathetically chronicled the highs and lows of Joanie Caucus, the popular character who walks out on her abusive husband and their children to pursue a career in politics and law.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The artist also chronicled his own face and physique from youth through old age, with unflinching depictions of time’s toll.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

She too had three dads, as she chronicled in a 2020 New Yorker piece aptly titled “My Three Fathers.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Not surprisingly, the Duchess’s grumpiness became legendary, as Voltaire has so ably chronicled.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

The 43-year-old became widely known following a Netflix documentary chronicling his journey, 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, released two years later.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Skidelsky’s involvement with his subject did not cease, however, with the chronicling and analysis of Keynes’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie is part history lesson, part horror film, which, when it comes to chronicling the American experience, feels like the perfect blend.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

During the pandemic, he whiled away lockdown by rising early and chronicling nature’s progress in more than 100 pictures on an iPad.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

In resigning themselves to the role of chronicling ever-changing usage, they are acknowledging the wisdom of Thomas Carlyle’s famous reply to Margaret Fuller’s statement “I accept the universe”: “Gad! She’d better.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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