antiquarian

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Recent Examples of antiquarian The antiquarian admittedly didn’t have such an easy road to the opening in 2005. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026 Martin Farquhar Tupper, a poet and an antiquarian favored by Queen Victoria, argued that Rapa Nui was the remnant of a lost continent whose people had perished. Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 Mac antiquarians will be pleased to know that ClamXAV, K7 AntiVirus, and Panda Dome Essential all go back more than 10 years, to Yosemite (10.10). PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 At last year’s antiquarian fair, a single volume by Mr. Jones, a cookbook of recipes from fellow prisoners, sold for $20,000 to the University of California at Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, according to Mr. Kinmont, who handled the sale. Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for antiquarian
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bookseller
Noun
  • Patchett’s life as a bookseller began around 2010, when the closing of two Nashville stores seemed to mirror a nationwide decline brought about in part by Amazon’s rise.
    Hillel Italie, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • By Wednesday, thousands of calls to boycott the bookseller had flooded social media.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026

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“Antiquarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antiquarian. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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