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Annalist

[AN-ə-ləst]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Unknown, 17th century

1.

A person who writes annals.

Examples of Annalist in a sentence

"Our community's history has been preserved through written records maintained by annalists."

"Timothy decided to combine his love of baseball and history and become a sports annalist."

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