Chronicle
noun
A detailed report or record of events in the order of their occurrence.
The book is a chronicle of the events leading up to his death.
Often appears as...
- personal chronicle
- detailed chronicle
verb
To report or record events in the order of their occurrence.
The newspaper chronicles the events of the city.
Often appears as...
- chronicle events
- chronicle experiences
noun
A detailed report or record of events in the order of their occurrence.
The book is a chronicle of the events leading up to his death.
Often appears as...
- personal chronicle
- detailed chronicle
verb
To report or record events in the order of their occurrence.
The newspaper chronicles the events of the city.
Often appears as...
- chronicle events
- chronicle experiences
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Chronicles often document historical events, giving insight into a period's culture and society.
Her diary served as a chronicle of life during wartime.
Pro Tip 2/3Sequential Order
Events in a chronicle are always presented in the order they happened, from first to last.
The chronicle began with the founding of the city and ended with modern day.
Pro Tip 3/3Objective Tone
A chronicle is typically written in an objective, factual manner rather than with personal bias.
The annals were a dry chronicle of the town's council meetings.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Chronicles often document historical events, giving insight into a period's culture and society.
Her diary served as a chronicle of life during wartime.
Pro Tip 2/3Sequential Order
Events in a chronicle are always presented in the order they happened, from first to last.
The chronicle began with the founding of the city and ended with modern day.
Pro Tip 3/3Objective Tone
A chronicle is typically written in an objective, factual manner rather than with personal bias.
The annals were a dry chronicle of the town's council meetings.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Chronicles often document historical events, giving insight into a period's culture and society.
Her diary served as a chronicle of life during wartime.
Pro Tip 2/3Sequential Order
Events in a chronicle are always presented in the order they happened, from first to last.
The chronicle began with the founding of the city and ended with modern day.
Pro Tip 3/3Objective Tone
A chronicle is typically written in an objective, factual manner rather than with personal bias.
The annals were a dry chronicle of the town's council meetings.
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What's missing in the...
not the causes. Why are they coming? Migrants can share perspectives, if only politicians would be willing to listen. In Dubai, I chronicled injustices and inequalities inflicted regularly on the migrant labor force. As a result, pressures from the governments of the respective countries
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Nathaniel Kahn: My...
and really to follow my journey. So instead of doing the talking head thing, instead it's composed of scenes, and we meet people along the way. We only meet them once. They don't come back several times, so it really chronicles a journey. It's something like life, that once you get in it
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Why should you read...
"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
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What Wikipedia Teaches...
I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths.
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Search for the Giant...
before um wild chronicles he combs the world's waterways looking for the biggest fish out there his theory is a simple one the health of the world's waterways can be gauged by the health of its mega fish population if you still have these giant fish species in the
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Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...
and all the facets of this moment as one person can i go this way okay and it get like we called in half a dozen photographers of all different backgrounds and experiences and sent them roaming across d.c they've chronicled life and war and
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Mapping the Unknown,...
understand the narrative of the universe mapping its history and future by measuring its shape Kenny's work has provided a chronicle of the Earth's history and a roadmap for better understanding current climate changes we
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Lakshmi Pratury: The...
is leaving notes on cyberspace where he is chronicling his journey through cancer. And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick,
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Wisdom from great...
And besides, growing old only postponed the inevitable, time seeing through what circumstance did not. It was all a bit disheartening. A list, though, would last. To chronicle a life year by vulnerable year
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Making white people...
sorry I didn't I didn't mean to elevate the discourse that way I feel like said some more you don't understand too big now throughout the show I chronicled my relationship with eggplants and I don't
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What's missing in the...
not the causes. Why are they coming? Migrants can share perspectives, if only politicians would be willing to listen. In Dubai, I chronicled injustices and inequalities inflicted regularly on the migrant labor force. As a result, pressures from the governments of the respective countries
Video examples
Nathaniel Kahn: My...
and really to follow my journey. So instead of doing the talking head thing, instead it's composed of scenes, and we meet people along the way. We only meet them once. They don't come back several times, so it really chronicles a journey. It's something like life, that once you get in it
Video examples
Why should you read...
"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
Video examples
What Wikipedia Teaches...
I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths.
Video examples
Search for the Giant...
before um wild chronicles he combs the world's waterways looking for the biggest fish out there his theory is a simple one the health of the world's waterways can be gauged by the health of its mega fish population if you still have these giant fish species in the
Video examples
Bonus Episode: Bicycles,...
and all the facets of this moment as one person can i go this way okay and it get like we called in half a dozen photographers of all different backgrounds and experiences and sent them roaming across d.c they've chronicled life and war and
Video examples
Mapping the Unknown,...
understand the narrative of the universe mapping its history and future by measuring its shape Kenny's work has provided a chronicle of the Earth's history and a roadmap for better understanding current climate changes we
Video examples
Lakshmi Pratury: The...
is leaving notes on cyberspace where he is chronicling his journey through cancer. And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick,
Video examples
Wisdom from great...
And besides, growing old only postponed the inevitable, time seeing through what circumstance did not. It was all a bit disheartening. A list, though, would last. To chronicle a life year by vulnerable year
Video examples
Making white people...
sorry I didn't I didn't mean to elevate the discourse that way I feel like said some more you don't understand too big now throughout the show I chronicled my relationship with eggplants and I don't
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Henning Mankell
Swedish Writer
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
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Joe Sacco
Journalist
Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
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Jay McInerney
American Writer
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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Ava DuVernay
American Director
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.
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Om Puri
Indian Actor
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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E. M. Forster
English Novelist
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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Howard Nemerov
American Poet
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
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Henning Mankell
Swedish Writer
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.
Quote examples
Joe Sacco
Journalist
Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
Quote examples
Jay McInerney
American Writer
I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
Quote examples
Ava DuVernay
American Director
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.
Quote examples
Om Puri
Indian Actor
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
Quote examples
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
Quote examples
E. M. Forster
English Novelist
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
Quote examples
Howard Nemerov
American Poet
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
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