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noun

plural of archive
as in libraries
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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verb

present tense third-person singular of archive
as in compiles

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Recent Examples of archives
Noun
Gates, who now stewards the photographic archives and periodicals of the Johnson Publishing Company, has exhibited it in different forms. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 According to Post-Tribune archives, in June, the Lake County Council voted to advance the data center project, also known as Project Shirley. — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026 Some evidence of the storm, George points out, remains visible outside the archives. — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026 The house presented its first collection designed by an internal team in September, looking to Etro’s archives and established design codes as part of its next chapter. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 Audiences may have to wait years between Avalanches albums, but the group never stops writing or digging through its archives. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2026 Newspaper reports and records in the archives of the Greenwich Observatory revealed another important clue. — Mike McRae 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026 Native American leaders feared the state's largest Dakota language archives had been lost. — Eric Henderson, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archives
  1. libraries
  2. compiles
  3. stacks
  4. links
  5. collates
  6. piles
  7. balls
  8. clusters
Noun
  • Last fall, the state sided with the reconsideration committee and said the decision to remove the book was arbitrary, reinstating it in high school libraries.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • As a result, bookstores, libraries and individuals have taken the template and run with it, building their own reader communities around the world.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of libraries
Verb
  • The video posted by @LiviesHQ compiles drafts of drawings, recordings of 3D animations, and more.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026
  • This independent organization compiles lists of needs for developing communities (think school supplies or clothing), and guests can bring these items from home to give to those in need.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of compiles
Verb
  • Now it’s bested itself, unveiling a sub-1 nm chip that roughly doubles that density using NanoStack technology, which stacks transistors vertically, building up rather than out.
    — Micheline Maynard, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • However, their critics argue the measure stacks the deck in favor of approval.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of stacks
Verb
  • Kinder Morgan operates a dominant, interconnected web of steel pipelines that links oversupplied shale basins directly to major demand centers and Gulf Coast export complexes.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • That links the card to their identity and the spending limits their employer has set.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of links
Verb
  • Starting last October, hackers gained access to a system operated by the Defense Manpower Data Center, which collates Department of Defense personnel records.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
  • And the new Personalized Intelligence update collates data across the lot.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Definition of collates
Verb
  • My father piles French toast and syrup onto a plate and my mother pours a glass of milk.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Big swine farms produce huge amounts of solid waste, which piles up in lagoons until a flood can wash them into rivers.
    — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of piles
Verb
  • Bassey signs, Ike balls out An hour after the Warriors officially signed reserve center Charles Bassey to a one-year deal, Graham Ike did his best to show that the backup center position should still be considered in flux.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 10 July 2026
  • The second and third outs were called third strikes, both of them initially balls before All-Star catcher Realmuto challenged through the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), or so called robot umpires, that will be used in the regular season for the first time this year.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of balls
Verb
  • The historical profile again clusters tightly.
    — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Liquidity cluster Wells Fargo added that most liquidity already clusters around the market open and close, making the idea of stretching trading hours even further counterproductive.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of clusters

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