Vocabulary
Annals
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a record of events year by year.
Urdu meaning
تواریخ، تقویمی ترتیب سے متعلق
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The annals of democratic struggles are replete with instances of the glorious role played by judges in support of the rule of law, particularly in India, America and Britain.
- Indeed, it is the poignant stories of these common men and women that are recorded in the annals of city`s regulatory failures, opportunistic politics, societal conflicts, cyclical violence, and governmental apathy.
- OUR constitutional journey is no different from our political odyssey, except that the former is recorded more in the annals of betrayals, compromises, and transgressions, and the latter as tales of tragedies, perfidies, and failures.
- Overreach: Admittedly, our constitutional annals are tainted with varying spells of `judicial activism`.
- OUR constitutional journey is no different from our political odyssey, except that the former is recorded more in the annals of betrayals, compromises, and transgressions, and the latter as tales of tragedies, perfidies, and failures.
Synonyms
records, archives, chronicles, accounts, registers, journals, history, muniments
Curator example
“eighth-century Northumberland annals”
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