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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Recent Examples of archives
Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
This is how the HEMI has changed through time, according to a trove of internet archives, vintage brochures and other automotive history.
—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The files came from the University of New Hampshire, which houses the archives of Barney and Betty Hill, the people widely considered to be the first alien abductees and from whose experience an entire genre was born.
—Ilana Masad
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Support from Home The Nobel archives reveal that Lippmann was no outsider.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
More than 90% of the world’s data today is video, yet most of it remains locked away– whether in Hollywood archives, sports vaults, or corporate libraries.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Get access to select stories from the archives, along with unlimited digital access to Vogue, for $3 $1/month for one year.
—Alexandra Fuller, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
The archives once again served as a major inspiration for the designer, and Andrew reworked wovens and an archival slingback for the season.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
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The change means some users, particularly those who have been on the app for years and saved thousands of Snaps, will need to pay for extra storage or risk losing access to their archives.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
This is how the HEMI has changed through time, according to a trove of internet archives, vintage brochures and other automotive history.
—Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The files came from the University of New Hampshire, which houses the archives of Barney and Betty Hill, the people widely considered to be the first alien abductees and from whose experience an entire genre was born.
—Ilana Masad
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Support from Home The Nobel archives reveal that Lippmann was no outsider.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
More than 90% of the world’s data today is video, yet most of it remains locked away– whether in Hollywood archives, sports vaults, or corporate libraries.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Get access to select stories from the archives, along with unlimited digital access to Vogue, for $3 $1/month for one year.
—Alexandra Fuller, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
The archives once again served as a major inspiration for the designer, and Andrew reworked wovens and an archival slingback for the season.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archives
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Presidential libraries are administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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Platforms like YouTube, Tubi, Pluto TV and Crackle offer viewers access to extensive content libraries without a subscription fee, instead showing a few advertisements before, during or after videos.—
Adam Rumanek,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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The more interesting question is instead how S&P Dow Jones compiles the list in the first place.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Bromley also is credited with expanding payment transparency by spearheading Manatt’s music streaming royalty calculator, which compiles direct-source data to show artists exactly how much they are being paid by Spotify and Apple Music.—
Claudia Rosenbaum,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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Behind its all-glass façade, the home stacks four bedrooms and five baths around an elevator core.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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In the conflict between Hobbes and Rousseau, between visions of primordial humankind as inherently brutal or inherently peaceful, Tsangari stacks the dramatic deck in favor of benign and placid human nature.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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And that then links to their view of what they’re justified doing in response to the grievances.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Following Kirk’s death, some speculated that his killer Tyler Robinson may have been exposed to these subcultures, but no credible evidence links him to the Groypers.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 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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This recipe piles them on, casting apples — which are starting to appear at farmers markets — and nuts front and center as main characters supported by a chorus of greens.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Sep. 2025
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That’s where the paperwork piles up, court fees skyrocket, and grieving families are forced into bureaucratic limbo for months — sometimes years.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Mold will appear fuzzy or thick, does not wipe away cleanly, and often clusters near the stem where the grapes are connected.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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Fatemian simply bunches each slice slightly, creating a ruffled, flower-like radish slice that is then inserted between the rest of the vegetables.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Archives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archives. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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