chronological order
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chronological order
First recorded in 1650–60
Example Sentences
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Reddit is organised into user-created communities called subreddits, where content is ranked by user voting rather than chronological order.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Right now, your social feeds mostly show posts from people you follow, in roughly chronological order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Putting the uncollected poems in chronological order between each published volume allows us to see how deliberately Heaney curated his books.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
It’s mostly been in chronological order, and sometimes just in the background while she’s working on something else but craving the show’s comforting familiarity.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
She wondered if he was talking about publication order or chronological order, but asking seemed a bit too hoity-toity.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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