annals

plural noun

ˈa-nᵊlz How to pronounce annals (audio)
Definition of annalsnext
as in history
an account of important events in the order in which they happened his annals of the reigns of English kings was used as a source by Shakespeare

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Recent Examples of annals In the long annals of the Monterey Jazz Festival, 2025 will be remembered as the year of the diva. — Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025 Nevada City, Montana Nevada City could have just been another gold-mining town that languished in the annals of history. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2026 Bashar al-Assad, who oversaw the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Syrians during a quarter century in power, may have achieved something new in the annals of tyranny. — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026 Bad Bunny‘s historic month — careening from Grammy album of the year honors into the annals of Super Bowl halftime history — feels like a coronation for Latin music. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for annals

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“Annals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annals. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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