as in library
a place where books, periodicals, and records are kept for use but not for sale
asked that the rare book be brought from the archive sent the novelist's letters to the archive for preservation
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Recent Examples of archive
Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
According to flight records archived by online flight tracking service FlightRadar24, only one plane was flying over the Folsom area at that time: An Airbus A321 operated as JetBlue Flight 734.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, the president will meet with the prime minister to view the Sir Winston Churchill archives.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Investigators say McAuliffe not only viewed the child pornography in the chat groups, but actively archived it, with his phone allegedly containing some 1,500 images and 50 videos of illicit materials.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
According to flight records archived by online flight tracking service FlightRadar24, only one plane was flying over the Folsom area at that time: An Airbus A321 operated as JetBlue Flight 734.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
Verb
Celebrity stylists are no doubt scouring his label’s archives ahead of the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
On Thursday, the president will meet with the prime minister to view the Sir Winston Churchill archives.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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In this moment, Android is a rather useful library.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The organization also offers youth art camps, workshops in libraries and artist residencies in schools across the Twin Cities.—
Kathryn Kovalenko,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The focus on Mandelson over his links to Epstein accentuated this week after the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 50th birthday album compiled in 2003 for Epstein, who at the time was a wealthy and well-connected financier.—
Pan Pylas,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in the Miami Herald newsroom.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Zhmo Canvas Tote Bag Finding a work bag that checks every box—fits your laptop, holds your lunch and water bottle, keeps things organized, and still looks stylish—is no small feat.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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This became clear from talking—between watching sail races—to those involved with organizing a Rolex SailGP event in France.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Use batching to streamline large-scale organizing tasks Batching is extremely useful for large — and often overwhelming — organizing projects, such as cleaning out the garage, attic or basement or tackling an overflowing closet.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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Successful implementations typically use schema-aware tools that preserve metadata and support both batch and streaming pipelines to ensure consistency downstream. 2.—
Abhik Sengupta,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Digital fingerprinting collates an array of data from your phone — your IP address, device model and OS, time zone, setup and anything else if can get — to create a unique identifier in aggregate, even if each individual data snippet us useless on its own.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Acutis’ website collated reports of miracles relating to the Eucharist to promote the Catholic belief that during the Mass the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ (the appearances of bread and wine remain).—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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My top tip is to systematize everything, from operations to onboarding.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Thus, the contribution of the men who formalized physiognomy (Johann Lavater) and phrenology (Franz Josef Gall) was systematizing a broader humoral worldview about the connection between body and character, and giving it the prestige of modern science.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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Instead of including a real image, the email linked to malware capable of extracting data from recipients’ devices, according to Genians.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Are the stories in the book linked in any way?—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite so much being stacked against them, the Angels had a shot to win before dropping a 2-1 decision to the Seattle Mariners.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Archive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archive. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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