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historian

noun

hi-ˈstȯr-ē-ən

Definition of historian

as in chronicler

a student or writer of history historians are still trying to sort out fact from fiction in the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks

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Recent Examples of historian The economic historian Paul David wrote a paper in 1990 that anyone modeling AI productivity should read. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Jacqueline Kennedy, the president’s widow, had sought — and been promised — that her husband’s grave would be visible around Washington, according to presidential historians. — Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 This investigation started decades ago with art historian Albert Boime and astronomer George Abell at UCLA in 1984 and continued in the following years with astronomer Charles Whitney at Harvard University. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The historians who have studied Putin’s Russia most closely would recognize the pattern instantly. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for historian

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chronicler

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Such behavior is typically frowned upon by most major news organizations, which want their reporters to be viewed as neutral chroniclers of the subjects and institutions to which they are assigned.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is perhaps the greatest chronicler of that era of scale, which stretched across the long twentieth century and only now shows the first signs of receding.

— Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

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