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historians

noun

plural of historian

as in chroniclers

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 historians Sam Wasson, one of Hollywood’s preeminent historians and biographers, has published searching books on the lives and works of Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Mazursky, Blake Edwards and Roman Polanski. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 Coffin burials date back even further, but historians have many hyphotheses for why the tradition has carried through to today. — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026 But what the site will look like in the future will be a matter for discussions with local officials, historians, preservationists and others. — ABC News, 24 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 The painting itself even ignites uncertainty among art historians. — 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 In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled something future historians might recognize as a new kind of empire. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 Cooking, which historians generally consider the first form of food processing, goes back as far as 2 million years. — Garrett M. Broad, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

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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
Later chroniclers say he was first struck by an arrow—some specifying the eye—and then killed in close combat.

— Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

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