chronicle
noun
a chronological record of events; a history.
was chronicling
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past progressiveof chronicle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The story contained the byline of a second AP reporter, John Leicester, who was chronicling a series of Russian attacks in Ukraine that day.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
Journalist Barkha Dutt, who was chronicling the pandemic, lost her father to the virus in April 2021.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2022
Before, I was chronicling the part where she was dying, and now she’s dead.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2020
Mitchell’s specialty was chronicling the lives of those in New York City who were down but not quite out, and Joe Gould was the perfect embodiment of the type.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2016
The answer is that in the former he was chronicling a stage of life that in its very essence was beauty: in the latter, something exactly the opposite.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
