as in library
a place where books, periodicals, and records are kept for use but not for sale
asked that the rare book be brought from the archive sent the novelist's letters to the archive for preservation
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Recent Examples of archive
Julia Teti, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Plus smartphones arrived to serve as both camera, archive and display.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Read why streaming services have a moral obligation to archive their catalogs.
—PCMAG, 26 Nov. 2024
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More than 70 pieces of Mackie’s own fashion archive, which spans the designer’s six-decade career, featured a rare trove of illustrations of his masterworks.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 13 Dec. 2024
Plus smartphones arrived to serve as both camera, archive and display.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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One Hugging Face user has archived over 80 videos, providing download links to the videos and their prompt.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Read why streaming services have a moral obligation to archive their catalogs.
—PCMAG, 26 Nov. 2024
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My favorite places to go were not amusement parks or playgrounds, but libraries and bookstores where my imagination could run wild.Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
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UpToDate is comparable to the library's special collection.Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The intrigue: The Builders of Hope toolkit took seven years to compile, using historical context, census data, input from dozens of people and a 10-year study tracking neighborhood change.Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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New analysis from the World Population Review highlights which countries are the most at risk of a population decline, and Newsweek has compiled the data into a new map.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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At campuses across the country — including top California universities, New York University and Harvard — unions representing graduate student workers, part-time and non-tenure track faculty and others are rapidly and aggressively moving to organize workers.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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After all, who had ever heard of hiring someone to organize your files?Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Other cheese recalls include St. Jerome cheese, batch 231129, recalled by Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese in Kentucky.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Think about Netflix recommendations: Netflix doesn’t wait to batch user behavior; the platform reacts immediately.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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The study also revealed the best airports for passengers in 2024, looking at on-time performance, customer service experience, and food and shops to calculate a final score for each airport, then collating a list of 239 airports ranked from best to worst.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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This book contains multiple interviews from various sources collated and translated in one place for the first time.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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In a bid to systematize the valuation of buildings, assessors were known to count the size and number of windows in a structure.Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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In 1949, the company rolled out a new venture to systematize the disparate European operations, creating units in different countries that were wholly owned by a new entity known as the Word Trade Corporation.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dozens of people have been sickened nationwide by salmonella linked to the Sunfed cucumbers since the recall was announced late last month.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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This is the first time T-Mobile has provided details on activity that could be linked to the sprawling espionage campaign that continues to worry U.S. officials.Sam Sabin, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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A couple of years ago the NFL’s TV Gnomes, with visions of Aaron Rodgers dancing in their skulls, stacked the primetime deck with Jets games.Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Cases of Jim Beam brand bourbon sit stacked in the warehouse at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits LLC distribution center in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sept. 28, 2018.Dan Mangan, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Archive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archive. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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