archivist

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 The head archivist was to be appointed by the president. Elizabeth Call, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025 That meant the restorers had to take imperfect left sides of other inferior prints and digitally stitch them onto the Paramount print, a process that took several years and the efforts of dozens of archivists at multiple institutions. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Apr. 2025 At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to help hold together a ledger. Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 These often-anonymous archivists are now facing the colossal task of connecting with one another to figure out just how much information has been saved and how to re-create a centralized network of websites where it can be easily accessed by the public again. Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 8 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for archivist
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  • Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov, and National Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu also attended.
    Mehmet Guzel, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • Qatar funded Representative Ilhan Omar’s trip to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and gave $1 million to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was still serving as U.S. secretary of state.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
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  • Miami Herald reporter Milena Malaver contributed to this story.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 17 May 2025
  • The Sacramento Bee 916-321-1040 Darrell Smith is The Sacramento Bee’s Equity Lab reporter covering issues important to the Black community and diverse voices in the capital region.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • In an article recently published in the journal PLOS One, historians announced the discovery of Tel Shiqmona, an archaeological mound south of the Israeli city of Haifa.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2025
  • Being raised by a historian led her to follow her mother’s footsteps.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
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  • Representatives of the registrar of voters office did not respond to the La Jolla Light’s request for comment.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • The county filed the complaint last month with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center against Pope and the registrar, NameCheap Inc., of Phoenix.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2025
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  • The truck was going 51 mph, as measured by the fire truck’s vehicle data recorder, at the time of the crash on a street where the speed limit is 35 mph .
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2025
  • Police received a search warrant for the event data recorder in the Dodge a few days later and found that the car was traveling at 85 mph less than one second before the crash, according to the affidavit.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025

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“Archivist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archivist. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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