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hagiographer

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as in archivist

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Recent Examples of hagiographer But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France. — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024 William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb. — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020 Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore. — Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019

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Noun

So, this brilliant archivist who worked with me found these images from French, German, and Italian anthropological expeditions.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
From Black historians to disability scholars, archivists to musicians, film is a global medium through which people learn about the world and each other.

— Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of archivist

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Decades later, long after Hemingway’s death, in 1961, Carlos Baker, Hemingway’s biographer, told Conrad about some of the letters deriding him.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Musk outlined this vision during a conversation with biographer Walter Isaacson on The Builders podcast.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of biographer

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The database contains just shy of 33 million individual records, according to Caitlin Hollander Waas, chief genealogist at the Museum's Kalikow Jewish Genealogy Research Center.

— Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Low, a genealogist, uses the San Francisco archive for personal and professional research.

— Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of genealogist

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Only the boy’s early obsession with the keyboard—initially discouraged by his parents—pointed to his destiny as a globe-trotting concert pianist, a composer in the major classical genres, and a fluent essayist and autobiographer to boot.

— Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail, 29 Aug. 2026
This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

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