as in secretary
a person who has the job of collecting and storing the materials in an archive
consulted with the archivist in conducting her research
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Recent Examples of archivist
Over the course of his career the designer, stylist and archivist has worked for brands including Kent & Curwen, Tommy Hilfiger, Simon Spurr Collections, Seven for All Mankind and Isaia.
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Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
The artist/archivist-in-residence program will bring together art historians, local artists and arts groups to work with the county Department of Arts and Culture to identify local legacy artists and offer community artmaking workshops.
—City News Service, Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
People will also be asking who has a building big enough for our subset group of archivists documenting, artists making things, community organizers gathering, professors panicking, singers singing, parents guarding in order to gather us together again.
—Angela Pelster, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
That's Leslie Fields, an archivist who works in special collections at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
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Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
The artist/archivist-in-residence program will bring together art historians, local artists and arts groups to work with the county Department of Arts and Culture to identify local legacy artists and offer community artmaking workshops.
—City News Service, Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
People will also be asking who has a building big enough for our subset group of archivists documenting, artists making things, community organizers gathering, professors panicking, singers singing, parents guarding in order to gather us together again.
—Angela Pelster, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
That's Leslie Fields, an archivist who works in special collections at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archivist
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The visit by Ali Larijani, a former Iranian parliament speaker who now serves as the secretary to the country's Supreme National Security Council, likely focused on what comes next after the initial round of indirect talks held last week in Muscat with the Americans.—
JON GAMBRELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia by about 11,800 votes in an election overseen by a Republican secretary of state and certified by a Republican governor.—
Kate Brumback,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Some pitchers and catchers were still awaiting physicals when Boone spoke to reporters late Wednesday morning, but the manager wasn’t aware of any new injuries as camp began.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Portugal’s legendary explorer Ferdinand Magellan gets an epic biopic courtesy of Filipino filmmaker and societal historian Lav Diaz.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Valentine’s Day is named after Saint Valentine, though historians say there were multiple Christian martyrs with that name.—
Katey Psencik,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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Mayne, the registrar at the Raupp Museum in Buffalo Grove, and Debbie Fandrei, the museum’s director and the other historian, began a search of dozens of contemporaneous sources, including the News-Sun.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Deputy Recorder Jon Miller, a Republican, is running against Democrat Leslie Nuss Bamesberger for the recorder’s job.—
Shelley Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Elle has become a collector of sounds, wandering the city with a pocket recorder in hand, creating what are, in effect, sonic images of instants stretched out into time.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Archivist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archivist. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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