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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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The Rolling Stones were there to chronicle the impending hangover.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 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

A selection of recent works of history and biography that chronicle the birth and youth of the American republic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

I do observe and chronicle my mom and dad, but they will not let me do much diagnostic work on their behalf.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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

It chronicles the negative social and public-health effects of legalization.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

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

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

These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another.

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

According to a dispute with a neighbor chronicled in court documents, Adelkoff and her then-husband acquired the home in 2002.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Reporters chronicled every metal barricade plunked down by police and each time people were told to move back from areas near the arena, to make way for the event and guests.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

The Canadian Medical Association Journal chronicled his family taking him to get emergency care over the following days and both clinics and hospital doctors trying to diagnose his symptoms.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Schneider chronicled the campaign in his video, “I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 in Lego.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Edisto’s sayings will be chronicled in the forthcoming book A Short History of a Small Place: Snapfinger.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Eventually, he said, he was contributing weekly columns to Sp!ts, a free commuter newspaper in Amsterdam, chronicling his growing infatuation with the sport.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

She spent the last three years chronicling her daily life as a young person going through chemotherapy and living with cancer, with all its hopes, joys and struggles.

From BBC Aug. 6, 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

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

As his subjects grew older, Terman issued updates on their progress, chronicling their extraordinary achievements.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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