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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s film isn’t the first nonfictional chronicle of Elizabeth Holmes’ enigmatic psyche, but it is the most revealing.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

The event was preserved in the "Spring and Autumn Annals," a historical chronicle compiled approximately 200 to 300 years later.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

News helicopters are a vital part of news gathering in Southern California, helping chronicle brush fires, mass shootings and, of course, police pursuits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

By early 1937, the lab was regularly producing material for “two dozen physicists, half a dozen biologists, and several chemists,” as an early chronicle reported.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The movie chronicles setbacks that follow Chin and Morrison in their project to ski down Everest’s north face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The influencer Clavicular has gained thousands of followers as he chronicles his extreme "looksmaxxing" - working to meet a set of prescribed criteria for attractiveness, with particular importance given to jawlines, eyes and physique.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ms. Hannah-Jones chronicles a wide range of unprofessional practices at Najya’s school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The best director prize went to Russian-born Ilya Khrzhanovsky for his vast, riotous and experimental cinema project "DAU" that chronicles the life of the troubled father of the Soviet nuclear programme, Lev Landau.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Until 1946, Japanese schools taught a myth of Japanese history based on the earliest Japanese chronicles of A.D.

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

The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors in her medical testing company Theranos, fuelling a media circus that has been chronicled in books, podcasts and the mini-series The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The scandal fueled a media circus and was chronicled in a book, multiple podcasts, and the biographical mini-series "The Dropout" that starred Amanda Seyfried.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Michael Burry, the contrarian ex-hedge-fund manager chronicled in The Big Short, is selling his top holding at an 8.5-year low.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

These initial moves and “lines” follow well-charted paths that have been chronicled for centuries, and players who want to improve their game attempt to understand and memorize them.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

She’s done dozens of interviews chronicling an industry that rose to prominence in the 1970s and grew on subsidies designed to promote it as renewable energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It looks like just another Tiktoker chronicling her breakup for the world to see.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

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

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

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell


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