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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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The roughly 30-piece show, I Am Plane Image, combines works lent by museums and private collectors with pieces from the family’s own holdings to chronicle the painter’s six-decade career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Like many of the best covers, Harris sings this young girl’s chronicle of her long-suffering mother’s sacrifices with such natural assurance that you’d think “To Daddy” had been written for her.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

“In the ’70s and ’80s, I even bought reptiles from some of the very people that I chronicle in ’Monsters of God,’” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The chronicle has a Kafka-esque ending, with the author on trial, accused of removing his relatives’ names from a list of Greeks with money in Swiss bank accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

I experience so many different health conditions— rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, pulmonary shock, muscle spasm—that it is impossible for me to even chronicle the degree of body breakdown.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

The film chronicles his childhood in South Africa and his time in Silicon Valley, and suggests that Musk’s genius is not as an inventor but as an investor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Richmal Crompton’s chronicles of an English schoolboy and his misadventures began in 1922 and charmed readers for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The manuscript, which includes the daughter’s blurry Polaroid snapshots and postcards from their travels, chronicles the pair’s trials, adventures and conversations as they pursue Nanna’s past and their own futures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Young’s searing memoir, “The Wound Is Where the Light Enters,” chronicles this bitter childhood and its devastating consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

But in addition to local news and chronicles, some foreign advertising creeps in.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

That society editor — who chronicled and illuminated the social, political and artistic issues in L.A. in the 1930s from the women’s perspective — was Crete Cage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Wolfes’ gatherings, where Wolfe served lobsters he caught, were chronicled by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The series chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Since then, every twist of their relationship has been chronicled by the press.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Escalante, whose efforts were chronicled in the film Stand and Deliver, did it by turning his class into an important symbol of status.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

To make sense of these claims, I reached out to Zeke Faux, the author of Number Go Up and a journalist who has been chronicling Bitcoin’s rise and fall and rise for years.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

But the bright-eyed cameraman often turned the lens to his own community, chronicling small but meaningful moments shaping everyday life in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It was restarted from scratch in 2013 with a new trilogy dubbed "Survivor", chronicling the adventures of a younger, less experienced Lara.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Mostly it was just me, chronicling heartbreak the only way I knew how.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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