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chronicle

[kron-i-kuhl] / ˈkrɒn ɪ kəl /


VERB
report, recount
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The chronicle has a Kafka-esque ending, with the author on trial, accused of removing his relatives’ names from a list of Greeks with money in Swiss bank accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 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

That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 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

She was under no obligation to the truth, she had promised no one a chronicle.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

She followed that up with “Traps,” in 2013, a slim suspense novel that chronicles the lives of four women in the American Southwest.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The artwork, which chronicles scenes from the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the start of the Norman Conquest of England, was held in a shock-proof and temperature controlled case to protect the delicate embroidery.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 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

They disagree on which social factors to emphasize and on how much weight to assign individual Spanish chronicles, but the outline seems not in serious dispute.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

All of them chronicled their holidays on social media, giving the Greek tourism industry a massive hit of free advertising.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

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

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Another patient, a 65-year-old veteran whose experience was chronicled in a case study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry this spring, fed ChatGPT the results of two previous memory tests.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

Not surprisingly, the Duchess’s grumpiness became legendary, as Voltaire has so ably chronicled.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

The 43-year-old became widely known following a Netflix documentary chronicling his journey, 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, released two years later.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Skidelsky’s involvement with his subject did not cease, however, with the chronicling and analysis of Keynes’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Where do I even begin with chronicling this train wreck?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon




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