future historian
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffutureandhistorian
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future
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
happening or existing in ...
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historian
noun[C]
uk/hɪˈstɔː.ri.ən/us/hɪˈstɔːr.i.ən/
someone who writes about or ...
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(Definition offutureandhistorianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffuture historian
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It is an ambitious study containing a wealth of detail which nofuturehistorianof public libraries will be able to ignore.
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And the questions which our putativefuturehistorianwould put to himself are already relevant to us today.
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Every man who held such a command must expect his qualifications to be canvassed by thefuturehistorian.
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He told us he was entitled to prophesy what thefuturehistorianwould say about the past week.
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More important is the growth of appreciation of its archive importance to thefuturehistorian.
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I believe that afuturehistorian, if he lives, will describe his efforts as alert realism.
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That is a question which will have to be examined with care by thefuturehistorianof this war.
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Whether they solve it with the correct balance, only thefuturehistorianwill be able to determine.
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But, unfortunately for our reputation, there are other materials which will be at the disposal of anyfuturehistorian.
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It is that there is and can be no documentary evidence in existence which will adequately reflect for thefuturehistorianthe great importance and value of his work.
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It has an importance which may be admitted; it gives us some pleasure on the platform even now, and thefuturehistorianwill observe it with interest.
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It may well be that afuturehistorianwill pick on these little debates, which we have had here on this subject, as of importance in showing an awareness.
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In the better achieved of these, the narrator is afuturehistorianpiecing the story together from surviving accounts.
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But future historians should not think that it was intended as a tree.
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There are several interesting pieces written during the 1540-1 religious conferences which future historians will need to consider.
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Future historians of this topic will be in his debt.
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The books under review in this article suggest many other topics for future historians.
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Generally speaking, this volume represents a very useful body of primary source material, sensitively handled, which will no doubt prove its worth to future historians many times over.
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Present-day young sociolinguists and future historians of the field should be grateful to the editors and publisher of this usually ephemeral material for making available this vivid human portrait.
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