How to Use archivist in a Sentence

archivist

noun
  • The heroes, set like the Leica on a pedestal, are the archivists.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The archivist is set to hand over more documents in the weeks and months to come.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The archivist had found the correct page for each record and marked it with a sheet of paper.
    John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The archivists soak the document to dissolve the glue and then peel off the old silking.
    Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Baggett, the city archivist, said the jail pages should wind up somewhere people can see them.
    Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for González to sort through.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Durran found the piece by asking Chanel’s archivist to look into an ’80s evening dress in a light color with a kick out at the hem.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The process started in July, when Phelps reached out to the archivist Molly Kodner.
    Ben Simon St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Moss is Kirby, an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times in the good old days for big-city newspapers.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
  • An archivist also introduced him to a survivor who agreed to show him the camp.
    Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Hallel Yadin is an archivist and writer in New York City.
    Hallel Yadin, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Sol Katz is a 41-year-old trans archivist in San Francisco.
    The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • This has been a strange year to be an archivist, a role that seeks to illuminate the present by excavating the past.
    Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Eric Voelz, an archivist who has worked at the St. Louis archive for three decades, looked at the document and pronounced it a forgery.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The archivist who found the 44-page file, Włodzimierz Lechnio, thinks that is jumping to a hasty conclusion.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The national archivist has been struggling to get them back.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Veronica ends up stranded in the Frick during a snow storm, along with archivist Joshua Lawrence.
    Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Tom Owen is an archivist at the University of Louisville.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This is not a portrait of the archivist as storyteller but as a rapt listener.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But a dogged archivist at Our Lady of the Lake University took the challenge.
    Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • His contacts led him to a film archivist at USC who digitized the film and created a website for them.
    Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The suit seeks to stop the archivist’s release of the documents and the committee’s work more generally.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Trump also names David Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, as a defendant in the civil lawsuit.
    Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
  • For a true and proud music fanatic like Elliott, the role of archivist seems like a natural fit.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 27 June 2021
  • State archivists have to be careful with public records, Bachmann said.
    Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Historians and archivists have been uncovering the Catholic Church’s role in the Atlantic slave trade and slavery for the past few decades.
    Ana Lucia Araujo, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • Jordan Ryan, an archivist at the historical society, said drag queens have long roamed the jazz clubs the Avenue was once known for.
    Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Danelli’s death was confirmed on his Facebook page in a post from friend and Rascals archivist, Joe Russo.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This past March, the archivist got a phone call from his friend Lauren Elmer, who happened to be running postproduction over at A24.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Patient and helpful archivists showed me their musty basement records room and helped me search stacks of old newspaper clippings and files of photos.
    Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 11 July 2024

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