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as in stories
a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened
a chronicle of their adventure on the river
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as in annals
an account of important events in the order in which they happened
only sketchy information about King Arthur can be found in the chronicles of ancient England
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as in describes
to give an oral or written account of in some detail
the book chronicles the efforts of two climbers to scale Mount Everest
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Recent Examples of chronicles
Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
The book chronicles Harpootlian’s firsthand experience prosecuting Gaskins, who was executed in 1991 after confessing to at least 13 murders.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
The Technicolor musical chronicles a year in the life of the Smith family, focusing largely on their four daughters.
—Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
The now-franchise chronicles the Morgan family, specifically Dan (Mark Wahlberg) and Jessica (Monaghan), as well as their three kids.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 29 Nov. 2025
Set in Baltimore, the HBO original chronicles institutions on each side of the drug trade and examines how cops, drug dealers, reporters, lawyers, teachers, and blue-collar workers are all connected by the same system.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025
Daisy Jones & the Six chronicles the rise and fall of a group fronted by two charismatic lead singers—Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne—and their journey from obscurity to fame, complete with romantic tensions, personal crises, and drug problems.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
The three-part docuseries that premiered this week chronicles how Rasmussen discovered Johnson’s deceptions and finally left him, only to be harassed by her ex after their divorce.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
The book, and now film chronicles the 60-year, sometimes rocky movement to create the still-expanding network of car-free paths.
—Pam Leblanc, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
The series' visceral approach and real-time structure (each episode chronicles a single hour) help to highlight the emotional and physical toll on emergency personnel, offering an engrossing alternative to romance-forward medical dramas like Grey's Anatomy.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Jan. 2026
With the help of a tall pour of bourbon, a five-piece band, and modern outlook, the title character chronicles the chaos and loneliness of her life.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
The show chronicles the Permian Basin oil boom in West Texas that took place in the early 2010s, fueled by advances in oil drilling technology.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025
The director has obtained the rights to the Charles Pellegrino’s book Ghosts of Hiroshima, which chronicles the true story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who in 1945 survived the nuclear blasts at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
The tense series chronicles the search for missing Milo, the investigation into why he was kidnapped and the lives and secrets of the adults in his orbit, including Marissa and her husband Peter (Jake Lacy).
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Michelle, who occupied the East Wing offices for both terms of Barack's presidency from 2009 through 2017, appeared on Today to promote her new book, The Look, which chronicles her style choices during her family's time in the White House — which came with both celebration and scrutiny.
—Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
The museum here chronicles the pre-Gold Rush era to the present day via both indoor and outdoor exhibits.
—Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2025
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Directed and written by Scott Cooper based on a book by Warren Zanes, the micro-biopic chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 acoustic album Nebraska.
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Australian director Patrick Hughes is helming the project, which chronicles Thornton’s real-life survival story in the South China Sea that earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.—
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Below, Dyens and Miailhe speak to Deadline about the importance of unearthing human stories amid the tragedy of the World War II era.—
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Lopez describes her daughter as an energetic, talkative child who speaks both English and Spanish.—
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Among the more moving cases that Blair describes are those of people who in life were vulnerable and powerless but in death were considered formidable threats.—
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This requires a set of skills to interrogate the past by probing deeply, constructing and reconstructing chronologies, and contemplating counterfactuals in which different decisions might have significantly altered subsequent events.—
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The site has since attracted more than 10 nuisance complaints since 2022, according to city records.—
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In 2005, McKee began medical school at Ohio State University and interned at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center starting in 2014, records show.—
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Frisbee recounts feeling bathed in warm light and then having had a vision of himself leading thousands of hippies into the Pacific Ocean to be baptized.—
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Gibson recounts the trajectory of Palmares as just one part of a much longer history of people seeking freedom and sanctuary in the midst of colonial societies.—
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More effective is Oldroyd’s patience in establishing Jack and Anna’s histories with the murder victim, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale).—
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These regular observations will gradually take in data and aim to provide pivotal information about the strengths, compositions, and histories of these primitive cosmic bodies.—
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Rose tells Shaw that her community is concerned about sacred remains being disturbed.—
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In this intimate portrait of life during the exhilarating early days of the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia in the 1970s, Pernille Ipsen tells the stories of the seven women who raised her, who were all part of the women’s movement in Denmark.—
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During inquiries, the ICO found 178 active email accounts using passwords identical or similar to those set by the organization’s IT desk when the account was activated.—
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This is no small feat given that the criminals’ bank accounts and arsenals are fed with narco-dollars by tens of millions of cocaine users in the West.—
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“Chronicles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicles. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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