How to Use archival in a Sentence
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The archival prints and puffy sleeves called to me, but the largest sizes sold out in seconds.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
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For packrats with an archival stash of tapes, the CT200 is a no-brainer.
—Paul Schrodt, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
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Parise told Spraker some of the records that go back to May 2014 are now kept on archival tapes.
—Author: Naomi Klouda, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2018
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But this wasn't archival footage of White Southerners from the 1960s.
—John Blake, CNN, 1 Aug. 2020
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An archival Coach style, the Swinger bag nods to the mini-bag moment of the early aughts.
—Nandi Howard, Essence, 1 Dec. 2020
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The group's archival Facebook page later confirmed the news.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
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Baker, a dark-haired man with a steely gaze, appears in a few of the archival images.
—The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
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See more archival photos from Brown’s first two terms in this piece from 2010.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
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One of the groups used archival observations to search for signs of the gas in the planet’s clouds, and didn’t find it.
—Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
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Wearing archival looks has become a steady trend among street style stars in the past few years.
—Vogue, 10 Oct. 2019
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For more on grilling, from how to choose charcoal to nearly 100 archival recipes, check out bonappetit.com/grilling.
—Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2021
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Twitter account captioned archival footage of Lynn singing a twangy duet with the Count.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
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Much of the project's power is in its archival potential.
—Emily Dreyfuss, WIRED, 25 June 2018
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Made from acid-free and archival-safe polypropylene, these won’t lift copy off of papers.
—Chris Hachey, BGR, 29 Apr. 2021
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Thanks to his archival pile, the retrieval was made that much easier.
—NBC News, 13 June 2018
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The film has great archival photos and film footage from Carter’s time with musicians.
—Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 25 Sep. 2020
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The archival content is great to have, and that currently goes back as far as the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
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So far in 2020, Neil Young has put out at least three archival releases.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
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But the archival research to locate the lost cities continued.
—Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
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Instead the documentary rewinds through the archival footage to a kiss — before the time, before the crime.
—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
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That the archival footage is repurposed in the film is in part a metaphor for the complexity and poignancy of the passing of time.
—The New Yorker, 12 May 2021
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Rare archival footage will also be shown throughout the series.
—Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
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Nixon is glimpsed a few times in crooked silhouette through the windows of the White House, his real voice heard from archival tapes.
—Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 14 Dec. 2017
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Through archival media and faithful recreations, viewers ride along on a trip that changed the world.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2020
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There are no talking-head experts and no archival footage or photos.
—Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
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So these archival prints really capture what life was like in the early 1900s.
—Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 16 Sep. 2021
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The filmmaker has gone through years of archival footage, with the cooperation of the Bowie estate.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2022
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Dempsey's character was killed off in season 11 and has only been seen in archival footage since.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
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For a day spent hunting vintage (both Beckhams have quite the closet full of vintage and archival treasures), the couple wears a mix of their favorites, both old and new.
—Madeline Fass, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2023
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Williams said in an archival interview with the Television Academy.
—Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
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