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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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present tense third-person singular of archive

as in compiles

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Recent Examples of archives

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Shortly after the explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, media archives show there was a mix of public reassurance, worry, and debate over international nuclear governance. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Next, the Tenere Icon marks the return of a signature model from the Aigle archives. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 Before the grand event unfolds, Vogue digs into its very own archives—and back through seasons and seasons of runways—to uncover some of the best Italian supermodels in fashion. — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026 Future iterations could safeguard dense digital archives for millennia, or even drift inside human bloodstreams to identify diseases cell by cell. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026 The kind of weird minutiae that only nerds pull out of old archives. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026 Star newspaper archives show the location has been open since at least 2004, previously operating as a Milgram’s Food Stores location. — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026 Over the weekend, there were two barely believable instalments for the archives — one from Luis Vazquez and another from Calvin Stengs. — Amitai Winehouse, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Leo also scrapped Francis’ plan to move parts of the Vatican’s secret archives and library off-site, ordering a new building inside the city-state to safeguard its trove of manuscripts. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for archives

Noun

That's not to say that sometimes those running libraries don't make stupid decisions.

— Robert Steinbuch, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Since 2018, Hialeah’s libraries operated as their own independent city department, answering directly to the mayor and council rather than sitting under a larger agency.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

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Both numbers appear in an April 2026 FEDS Note from the Federal Reserve Board, which compiles three separate federal instruments and reports what each found.

— Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Revisions are a normal part of the process when BLS compiles the report each month.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of compiles

Verb

Vertical stacking cuts heat The approach is based on Huawei’s LogicFolding architecture, which stacks active chip layers vertically instead of placing all the circuitry across a conventional two-dimensional layout.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
As the house begins to rise, the crew stacks wooden cribbing, like Lincoln Logs, into pillars underneath, to help support the structure.

— Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of stacks

Verb

The average homeowner should still expect slight increases in their county tax bills due a state rule that links taxable values to the inflation rate.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
One of the few studies links all birth records from 2000 to 2016 to court records from the same time in Georgia.

— Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of links

Verb

And the new Personalized Intelligence update collates data across the lot.

— Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Munro pointed to changes made at BBC Arabic, including overhauling its Press Review item — which collates media reporting from the Middle East — and bolstering editorial leadership and accountability at the service.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025

Definition of collates

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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

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