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as in archive
a place where books, periodicals, and records are kept for use but not for sale I went to the library to do some research for my report

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Recent Examples of library Add an incentive or challenge Summer reading challenges, whether at your local library, online or homemade, can be a great way to keep reading exciting. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 June 2025 Earlier this month, Surf City voters overwhelmingly passed two ballot initiatives addressing their libraries. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025 The Randolph location has a library, and the uptown location has a great store. Katie Black, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025 This means training businesses, libraries and public service workers to interact compassionately with people living with cognitive impairments. Taylor Penn-Vessels, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for library
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  • Grove City College—which has stressed Austrian School economics in its undergraduate programs—has completed a major project of digitizing a 20,000-page archive of letters, manuscripts, and notes by the great economist.
    Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • An archive photo of a U.S. Forest Service firefighter firing flares into the brush to set a backfire near Calimesa, in Riverside County, California, in October 2005.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
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  • Pieces from her collection, including artist Karin Miller’s Angie in Yellow, adorn the mustard walls.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 22 June 2025
  • The collection initially arrived with 44,300 equivalent units.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025

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“Library.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/library. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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