chronicle
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“I told myself I was only going to chronicle the decadence,” says narrator Bret, “an excuse I’d return to many times in my career.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
"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
American museums that chronicle slavery increasingly focus on enslaved people’s community-building skills and entrepreneurial abilities.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
Japan’s Emperor Akihito, who reigns today, is the 82nd direct descendant of the emperor under whom that first chronicle of A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"Katseye: Wild Hearts," which chronicles the pop girl group by the same name, came in fifth place, earning $3.6 million for Trafalgar Releasing on its opening weekend.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Young’s searing memoir, “The Wound Is Where the Light Enters,” chronicles this bitter childhood and its devastating consequences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
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
This visible evidence of political centralization that the kofun provide reinforces the accounts of Kofun era Japanese emperors written down much later in Japanese and Korean chronicles.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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According to a dispute with a neighbor chronicled in court documents, Adelkoff and her then-husband acquired the home in 2002.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Reporters chronicled every metal barricade plunked down by police and each time people were told to move back from areas near the arena, to make way for the event and guests.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
America’s artists have always chronicled, celebrated and criticized the nation’s historical events, values, achievements and faults in paintings—abetting our understanding of our history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
He made the revelation in a book in which he chronicled his battle with cancer, saying that he received immunotherapy treatment throughout his record Vendee Globe victory.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
They started a blog called 50 Homes in 50 States and chronicled their moving adventures.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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Eventually, he said, he was contributing weekly columns to Sp!ts, a free commuter newspaper in Amsterdam, chronicling his growing infatuation with the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
She spent the last three years chronicling her daily life as a young person going through chemotherapy and living with cancer, with all its hopes, joys and struggles.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
And stay out of what we do because what we do is the business of humanity, of chronicling it, of commenting upon it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Where do I even begin with chronicling this train wreck?
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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