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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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"There were certain professional fields where there were a lot of party members, for example civil servants and teachers," the historian told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Dr Eleanor Barnett, a food historian at Cardiff University, said the survey results were about "convenience" for people and that takeaways had historically been a "social way of eating".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

“This amounts to a real right to bail in hundreds of thousands of cases, which previously in California might have led to detention,” said Kellen R. Funk, a legal historian at Columbia Law School.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

The new crop of bearded and mustachioed pols is just the beginning, predicts Trainor, the historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

I did so because I agree with historian Diane McWhorter that “to sanitize the language of segregation is to mute its destructive force.”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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