hagiographer

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Recent Examples of hagiographer But only hagiographers believe that one man created today’s France. Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024 William’s hagiographer, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, laid out this unsubstantiated account in excruciating detail, leading to the canonization of the dead boy; like mushrooms after rain, accounts of miracles arose around his tomb. Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020 Hansen is not a hagiographer, and parts of the book are unflattering and depart from official Cuban lore. Michael J. Bustamante, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
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Noun
  • Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has spearheaded Senate efforts to advance the ERA, has criticized the archivist's analysis as flawed.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The executive branch doesn't have a direct role in the amendment process, and Biden is not going to order the archivist to certify and publish the ERA, the White House told reporters on a conference call.
    Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Hemingway, according to literary biographer Scott Donaldson, quickly become the target of a confidence-bruising onslaught designed to humble him and mold him into a subservient, obedient journalist.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, oral historians and genealogists are also working to identify the hundreds of children who attended the school.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Detective Tina Lewallen and genealogist Shera LaPoint, along with other crime lab technicians, walk the jury through the process of the genealogy and the DNA match.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024

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“Hagiographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographer. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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