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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
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s recipe archives are filled with treasures submitted by past food editors, journalists and readers. — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The winning projects range from initiatives involving several museums to collaborations with communities of origin to the individual cataloging of archives and databases. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The office also maintains state archives and manages lobbyist registrations and campaign finance disclosures. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Other techniques involved web archives and the ntfy push-notification service. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026 Or find even more on translators and translation in our archives. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 This account, however, clashes with newspaper archives and contemporary accounts. — Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026 And in Wild Asparagus, Avi Mograbi returns to his archives of a visit to Palestinian village Saffuriya with his friend Ali Al-Azhari, giving new meaning to decades-old footage. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 On the night of the killing, Gaines was involved in an altercation, recorded on video, with his brother who also lives on West 21st Place, according to Post-Tribune archives. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archives
  1. libraries
  2. compiles
  3. stacks
  4. links
  5. collates
  6. piles
  7. balls
  8. clusters
Noun
  • As the only Supreme Court case to date involving censorship in school libraries, Pico, while a limited ruling, did set out general guidelines still used today.
    — Susan Farrell, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The archive includes 168 autograph letters by the naval commander, along with battle papers, family documents, naval logs, and books from Nelson and Hamilton’s libraries.
    — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of libraries
Verb
  • 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
  • With 52 weeks on the calendar, that’s less than 2 weeks between new releases — not accounting for marquee weekends when the industry typically stacks big premieres.
    — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The brands fueling the trend The category has grown well beyond enzymes alone, folding in a broader anti-bloat routine that stacks prebiotics, probiotics and fiber.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of stacks
Verb
  • In the Mexican drama series Inside the Circle, four lifelong friends accidentally uncover a video that links a powerful government official to the unsolved death of an actress.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Substantial evidence links psychological stress to inflammation, barrier impairment and skin aging, which is why breakouts, sensitivity and dullness flare during hard weeks.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 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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