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archivist

[ahr-kuh-vist, -kahy-] / ˈɑr kə vɪst, -kaɪ- /
NOUN
annalist
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“Disney was a storyteller continually thinking outside the box,” says Paula Sigman-Lowery, former archivist for the Walt Disney Archives and consultant for the Walt Disney Family Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

The cathedral archivist admits to being taken aback by the package, but alongside the skull was a letter of explanation.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Historians are divided, with Athens' Benaki Museum's head archivist Tasos Sakellaropoulos calling the tomb a "place of silent collective memory and respect, not of pain or anger" in Kathimerini daily.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

In the 1950s and ’60s, a literary-minded cat named Dr. Absalom Minola — writing via his “butler,” future UC Berkeley archivist Jim Kantor — began sending letters to authors, editors and public figures.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

He was just an archivist, and she was an officer in the goblin army, a lieutenant.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin