as in guardians
a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc.
a curator seeking an addition to the collection
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Recent Examples of curators
In a fashion world increasingly dominated by fast trends and fleeting styles, vintage curators are pushing back—championing quality, history, and individuality.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Through a selection of books, magazines and newspapers, the exhibition's curators show how Black publications experienced tremendous growth in readership, circulation and influence during the interwar years.
—Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025
Ismael Cuevas, one of the show’s co-curators says.
—Miguel Figueroa, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Artists and curators hope the exhibit challenges stereotypes and shows that Indigenous people and their art are contemporary.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art historian Ceren Özpınar and curators Chus Martínez, Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, and Ulya Soley.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Chloe Sultan and Mahfuz Sultan, curators of the exhibition and codirectors of the Virgil Abloh Archive, said the exhibit is designed to mirror his creative process, with little distinction between disciplines.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
The Muse Market in Los Gatos will feature over 40 independent brands, artists, designers and curators.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Through a selection of books, magazines and newspapers, the exhibition's curators show how Black publications experienced tremendous growth in readership, circulation and influence during the interwar years.
—Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025
Ismael Cuevas, one of the show’s co-curators says.
—Miguel Figueroa, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Artists and curators hope the exhibit challenges stereotypes and shows that Indigenous people and their art are contemporary.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art historian Ceren Özpınar and curators Chus Martínez, Öykü Özsoy Sağnak, and Ulya Soley.
—News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Chloe Sultan and Mahfuz Sultan, curators of the exhibition and codirectors of the Virgil Abloh Archive, said the exhibit is designed to mirror his creative process, with little distinction between disciplines.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
The Muse Market in Los Gatos will feature over 40 independent brands, artists, designers and curators.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curators
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Police are hoping the find will remind parents and guardians to check their children's Halloween candy.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Ciske has also gotten creative in making sure kids can keep coming with their guardians.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Qing Yuan had seen many of these tiny corpses, pinkish, yellowish, tin-gray, curled up, always seemingly asleep, tossed by janitors into fires outside the building.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But cities tend to be where people go out looking for birds, trying to find them before the rats get them, or before custodians sweep them away.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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The most visible plans are those devised by the same international custodians who have engineered postwar order elsewhere in the Middle East.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As the two keepers' accelerating madness batters their already uneasy relationship, the film becomes a phantasmagorical endurance test, with the two antagonistic leads hurling themselves against their tight confinement.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Nearly 200,000 workers are employed in animal care and services, including kennel attendants, groomers, stable hands, zoo keepers and animal trainers.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Her caretakers were identified as Enrique Junior Navedo, 43, and Loy Lynn La Pierre, 58.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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In the novel and movie, a family — Wendy and Jack Torrance, and their son Danny — moves to a mountain resort in Colorado to be winter caretakers of the property.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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In making Lin and Grady co-stewards, Sequoia is returning to the successful formula last employed when partners Michael Moritz and Doug Leone served as co-stewards.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Curators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curators. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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