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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 archivists
The Ḫattuša archivists developed a catalog and corresponding metadata — titles taken from the first words of each text, brief descriptions of contents, genre classifications, and the like.
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Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
People will also be asking who has a building big enough for our subset group of archivists documenting, artists making things, community organizers gathering, professors panicking, singers singing, parents guarding in order to gather us together again.
—Angela Pelster, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
For many filmmakers, publishers, programmers, and archivists, Public Domain Day is one of the most consequential dates on the creative calendar.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
—Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
For the last 50 years, archivists have been cataloguing and preserving the naturalist’s lifetime of surviving correspondences, resulting in 30 volumes of edited material.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The headquarters is an homage to the work of the Internet Archive’s 200 staff members, which include engineers, librarians and archivists.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Folk archivists hunted down Delta legends Son House and Skip James, who were still alive, and rekindled their careers.
—USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
People will also be asking who has a building big enough for our subset group of archivists documenting, artists making things, community organizers gathering, professors panicking, singers singing, parents guarding in order to gather us together again.
—Angela Pelster, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
For many filmmakers, publishers, programmers, and archivists, Public Domain Day is one of the most consequential dates on the creative calendar.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
—Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
For the last 50 years, archivists have been cataloguing and preserving the naturalist’s lifetime of surviving correspondences, resulting in 30 volumes of edited material.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The headquarters is an homage to the work of the Internet Archive’s 200 staff members, which include engineers, librarians and archivists.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Folk archivists hunted down Delta legends Son House and Skip James, who were still alive, and rekindled their careers.
—USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archivists
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Nanos told reporters that everyone who has recently been in contact with Nancy is a suspect.—
Michael Sinkewicz , Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times reporters do not participate in voting for awards.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating the teaching of Black history in the United States.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2026
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As Colorado celebrates 150 years of statehood this year, historians are sharing how Black community leaders here fought to secure voting rights for people across our nation.—
Anna Alejo,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Searches of business records kept by the Colorado and Kansas secretaries of state did not show an entity registered with that name in either state, though a business with that name is registered in Delaware.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
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At certain points in his second term, various Cabinet secretaries have allegedly been on the outs but then managed to survive.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Archivists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archivists. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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