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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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While early journal entries chronicle profound uncertainties regarding viral origins and transmission dynamics, public mandates were treated as absolute, unquestionable truths.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 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 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

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

"Katseye: Wild Hearts," which chronicles the pop girl group by the same name, came in fifth place, earning $3.6 million for Trafalgar Releasing on its opening weekend.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 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

In his newly published book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” a second memoir after the bestselling “Hillbilly Elegy,” Mr. Vance chronicles how he went from evangelical Christian to militant atheist to Catholic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 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

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

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

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

Wahzhazhe chronicled the sweeping history of the Osage, including the period of the Reign of Terror.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The journalist Michael Wolff, who has been chronicling Trump for years, says he obtained both letters while writing a book about the president’s 2024 campaign.

From Slate Aug. 21, 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

A marvelous frieze chronicling American history, begun by the Italian-American artist Constantino Brumidi, overlooks the rotunda.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Many of his projects remain intact, including the ornamental lake he had dug, and a bathroom papered with a montage of original newspaper clippings chronicling major events from the early 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Within a year, Mia had sent Anita another set of prints—each chronicling something’s slow decay: a dead cottonwood, a condemned house, a rusting car—that she was ready to take on.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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