chronicle
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The event was preserved in the "Spring and Autumn Annals," a historical chronicle compiled approximately 200 to 300 years later.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
From the moment it had its world premiere last month at a Telluride Film Festival surprise screening, this boundary-breaking chronicle of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fall from grace became the year’s buzziest movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The roughly 30-piece show, I Am Plane Image, combines works lent by museums and private collectors with pieces from the family’s own holdings to chronicle the painter’s six-decade career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In this monthly Retirement Rookies column, the 69-year-olds chronicle some of the issues they are dealing with early in retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
I’d seen hundreds of shattered windshields in the junkyard, each one unique, with its particular spray of gossamer extruding from the point of impact, a chronicle of the collision.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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The influencer Clavicular has gained thousands of followers as he chronicles his extreme "looksmaxxing" - working to meet a set of prescribed criteria for attractiveness, with particular importance given to jawlines, eyes and physique.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Joe Barrett chronicles Stafford’s unraveling and the growing peril of digital love traps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The disarmingly wry “In My Own Time” chronicles the author’s early days in the New York stage world of the 1960s and ’70s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The best director prize went to Russian-born Ilya Khrzhanovsky for his vast, riotous and experimental cinema project "DAU" that chronicles the life of the troubled father of the Soviet nuclear programme, Lev Landau.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
For these reasons, some scholars dismiss the chronicles entirely.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The rise of the women's team - chronicled in the 2019 documentary Power Meri,, external which followed the Orchids to their debut World Cup in 2017 - has been helped by Elsie Albert's star power.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
"The Social Reckoning" serves as a sequel of sorts to 2010's "The Social Network," Sorkin's acclaimed film that chronicled Facebook's origins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Michael Burry, the contrarian ex-hedge-fund manager chronicled in The Big Short, is selling his top holding at an 8.5-year low.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Wahzhazhe chronicled the sweeping history of the Osage, including the period of the Reign of Terror.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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In the past 20 years Mr. Macintyre has become the master of the nonfiction spy genre, his books chronicling remarkable stories of operatives, famous and unknown, who changed history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
To make sense of these claims, I reached out to Zeke Faux, the author of Number Go Up and a journalist who has been chronicling Bitcoin’s rise and fall and rise for years.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
But the bright-eyed cameraman often turned the lens to his own community, chronicling small but meaningful moments shaping everyday life in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was restarted from scratch in 2013 with a new trilogy dubbed "Survivor", chronicling the adventures of a younger, less experienced Lara.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
As his subjects grew older, Terman issued updates on their progress, chronicling their extraordinary achievements.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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