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  • I think we should go through them in chronological order.   (source)
    chronological = from oldest to newest
  • In this matter dates are everything, and I think that if we get all of our material ready, and have every item put in chronological order, we shall have done much.   (source)
    chronological = arranged by date
  • "But sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order," I say.†   (source)
  • Hard as I try, I cannot break it up into smaller sections that would impose some chronological order on it, as you usually do when writing a journal.†   (source)
  • Joanna arranged them in chronological order and read the first card: Dear Hilde, I can't wait to come home to Lillesand.†   (source)
  • I have them here at my feet, bound with colored ribbons, divided according to events and not in chronological order, just as she arranged them before she left.†   (source)
  • The material was all arranged in chronological order.†   (source)
  • From this point on, Grandma's letter becomes increasingly chaotic, the details interspersed without chronological consistency.†   (source)
  • I had memorized the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Roosevelt in chronological as well as alphabetical order.†   (source)
  • I could go chronologically, or I could work from easy to hard or hard to easy, depending on my mood.†   (source)
  • In a flash, she recognized that the aisles were chronological.†   (source)
  • There are a great deal of annotations in modern English, but there's no hierarchy to it, no order, other than a rough chronological one.†   (source)
  • Mastine was able to establish that, as I had said, it was an affidavit in which I retold the encounter with Madison chronologically.†   (source)
  • Scattered throughout were hints, vaguely worded allusions, and a few very direct chronological and geographical references.†   (source)
  • There were more, too, some that went back to their infancy, and though the pictures weren't arranged chronologically, it was a testament to how the family had grown and changed over the years.†   (source)
  • We worked chronologically, starting with things that would fit our feet now and moving to smaller and smaller sizes.†   (source)
  • And inside, arranged in strict chronological order, were more than a hundred pictures that somehow stuck better to memory than Cacciato himself.†   (source)
  • I say I favor a chronological approach, but Charna has other ideas; she wants things to go together tonally and resonate and make statements that amplify one another.†   (source)
  • I wandered down the hall, past the school pictures of Gracie and Garrett hung in chronological order, and into the family room.†   (source)
  • Someone, Kit or the digitizers, had arranged them all more or less chronologically, and now he could, and too often did, scan through the thousand pictures, a record of his life, in minutes.†   (source)
  • Jack was a bit older than I—a critical nine months or so—and thus became chronologically scheduled to see combat, whereas I was lucky and escaped with my hide intact.†   (source)
  • The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, butin their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily—perhaps not possibly—chronological.†   (source)
  • LENA HAD GRABBED Professor Gurshelfs Illustrated Atlas of the World — Being a Compendium of Statistical, Descriptive, Chronological, Geographical, Astronomical and Political Information Respecting All the Peoples and Nations of the Earth.†   (source)
  • Disconcertingly, however, this arrangement did not appear to be chronological.   (source)
    chronological = in order by date and time
  • For here was Mishka's project in a nutshell: a compendium of quotations from seminal texts arranged in chronological order, but in each of which the word bread had been capitalized and printed in bold.   (source)
    chronological = arranged according to date
  • The entries had apparently been logged chronologically, one by one, as Bernini created each new work.   (source)
    chronologically = in order by date
  • Everything is clearly labeled by place and date with a black Sharpie and neatly stacked in chronological sequence under the eaves.   (source)
    chronological = date
  • They'll use tape recorders and conduct what he calls "oral histories," asking the person questions, transcribing the answers, and putting it together in chronological order as a narrative.   (source)
  • Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in chronological order every scrap of evidence they have.   (source)
    chronological = arranged according to time
  • Life wants you to grab all the organized, the
    alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced.†   (source)
  • Salander ploughed through year after year of press cuttings, moving in chronological order.†   (source)
  • I put them in chronological order according to pattern nu— never mind," I say as I stand up.†   (source)
  • It's more complicated than that, and I have to tell the story in chronological order.†   (source)
  • "You put his patterns in chronological order?" my mother asks, perplexed.†   (source)
  • They asked me to describe it and in chronological order, which I did.†   (source)
  • Chronologically, yes, but I haven't been sixteen for years.†   (source)
  • She tied them up with colored ribbons, arranging them according to events and not in chronological order, for the one thing she had forgotten to record was the dates, and in her final haste she decided that she could not waste time looking them up.†   (source)
  • Let's take them in chronological order.†   (source)
  • I tried so hard to keep it all organized, alphabetized,
    stacked in chronological order, everything in its
    perfect space, its perfect place.†   (source)
  • My hand brushes against the patterns that are neatly stacked in chronological order as I recall all the cleaning and alphabetizing I did the previous weekend.†   (source)
  • Finally, when clearance for takeoff was around the chronological corner, it was discovered that there was a malfunction in the far starboard engine; no one argued while the problem was traced, found and repaired.†   (source)
  • "If you work from the back of the atlas forward," offered Bert, "you can also unravel the languages chronologically.†   (source)
  • I skip Grade Seven and go straight into Grade Eight, missing the Kings of England in chronological order, missing the circulatory system, leaving my boyfriend behind.†   (source)
  • I make here a little chronological table of events.†   (source)
  • That's our Armenian cook, Begedbian; that's me on the pony; that's the tent folded up; that's a rather tiresome Kurd who would follow us about at the time....Here I am in Pontus, Ephesus, Trebizond, Krak-des-chevaliers, Samothrace, Batum—of course, I haven't got them in chronological order yet.†   (source)
  • Of course, it was easy to say that Conway's explanation was chronologically impossible, or almost so; but there was still the music itself to be explained.†   (source)
  • It was no accident, therefore, that the birth of the avant-garde coincided chronologically — and geographically, too — with the first bold development of scientific revolutionary thought in Europe.†   (source)
  • "d'Artagnan and I. Or rather, to observe the chronological order, I and d'Artagnan," replied Athos.†   (source)
  • But all this later, let us take events in their chronological order.†   (source)
  • * *Ein Versuch die Neurosen und Psychosen gleichmässig und pragmatisch zu klassifizieren auf Grund der Untersuchung von fünfzehn hundert pre-Krapaelin und post-Krapaelin Fällen wie siz diagnostiziert sein würden in der Terminologie von den verschiedenen Schulen der Gegenwart—and another sonorous paragraph—Zusammen mit einer Chronologic solcher Subdivisionen der Meinung welche unabhängig entstanden sind.†   (source)
  • I altered my old one by cutting up all the Epistles and Gospels into separate brochures, and rearranging them in chronological order as written, beginning the book with Thessalonians, following on with the Epistles, and putting the Gospels much further on.†   (source)
  • Judith had commenced with the earliest letters, luckily for a ready comprehension of the tale they told, for they were carefully arranged in chronological order, and to any one who would take the trouble to peruse them, would have revealed a sad history of gratified passion, coldness, and finally of aversion.†   (source)
  • "These composers," Captain Nemo answered me, "are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; and I'm dead, professor, quite as dead as those friends of yours sleeping six feet under!"†   (source)
  • How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns!†   (source)
  • We must allow for a good deal of mythmaking in the similar chronological span that separates Homer from Troy.†   (source)
  • So much happened, it's hard to write it all down, so here are the highlights, in semichronological order: I rode Paprika, first in the paddock, then on the trail.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semichronological means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
  • But first I you beseech in this mattere,
    Though I by order telle not these things,
    Be it of popes, emperors, or kings,
    *After their ages,* as men written find, *in chronological order*
    But tell them some before and some behind,
    As it now cometh to my remembrance,
    Have me excused of mine ignorance.†   (source)
  • I read through the stories in reverse chronological order and discovered all the previous ways Ayala had ruined things for Chewie and Rey.   (source)
    chronological = from oldest to newest date
  • CHRONOLOGICAL ISSUANCE
    DATE OF ISSUANCE
    CONDITION OF BOOK
      (source)
    chronological = in date order
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