as in secretary
a person who has the job of collecting and storing the materials in an archive
consulted with the archivist in conducting her research
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Recent Examples of archivist
City attorney may be ousted in primary Until this primary, an incumbent city attorney had made the runoff in Los Angeles since 1933, according to a city archivist.
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Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
As a teenager, John Tefteller worked for Groucho Marx as an archivist and audio engineer.
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Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also the current acting national security adviser, and in February of this year stepped down as acting archivist of the United States.
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Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
2 June 2026
That's according to Stacey Peeples, the hospital's curator and archivist.
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Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
25 May 2026
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Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
As a teenager, John Tefteller worked for Groucho Marx as an archivist and audio engineer.
—
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also the current acting national security adviser, and in February of this year stepped down as acting archivist of the United States.
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Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
2 June 2026
That's according to Stacey Peeples, the hospital's curator and archivist.
—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
25 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archivist
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Lowther-Pinkerton is a former SAS soldier and equerry to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who served as Prince William and Prince Harry's full-time principal private secretary from 2005 to 2013, plus a year of part-time service in the role after.
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Biddle has been with MDOT since 2023, served as acting secretary in 2025, and has two decades of experience, serving in both the public and private sectors of the transportation industry.
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Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.
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The Riverside County sheriff drew flak for conservatives like Laura Loomer for kneeling alongside activists in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and, when pressed by a CNN reporter, for signaling openness to a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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The discovery of gold in the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota by a Custer expedition just years earlier spurred a military campaign against Great Plains tribes that aimed to push them onto reservations, or what were known then as agencies, said historian Dakota Goodhouse.
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Screenings include an introduction by critic and film historian Leonard Maltin.
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The Pushing Daisies and Marcella star plays a fearsome and fearless doctor, who along with her second-in-command, registrar Dr Curtis Parker, leads a ragtag group of medical interns on their final chance at Pines Hospital.
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More than 782,000 Orange County voters’ ballots have already been counted for the June 2 primary election, data from the registrar of voters show.
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That’s what the board did in 2024, when the county circuit clerk, recorder, auditor and coroner positions all got raises following the 2024 election.
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Graham said that federal investigators did not yet know whether the plane had a flight data recorder — often called a black box — on board.
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“Archivist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archivist. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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