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[ahr-kahyv] / ˈɑr kaɪv /


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This helped create an archive that scientists still use today, complete with grass that is 170 years old.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

When a gay American man arrives to archive her art collection, he’s pulled along by a romance and a deeper mystery at the villa.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

Meta joined the pledge in 2016 according to a Wayback Machine archive of RE100's website.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

But the archive goes beyond capturing the devastating changes that occurred in the three L.A. neighborhoods; it documents the rich life that existed there, prior to the demolition of homes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

I found a digital copy of the sixty-seven-year-old Tomb of Horrors module buried deep in an ancient FTP archive.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Elsewhere, the paper reports on "Iconic Diana dresses revealed among palace archives", embedding a photo of the late Princess of Wales.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

I searched the newspaper archives and found very few stories that mentioned his size back when he was on the “Roseanne” TV series.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Surviving excerpts of the letter, preserved in the Vatican archives, point to a major political struggle in Rome that may have influenced the fate of England.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Mr. Meyer draws on later correspondence, archives, unpublished writings and his experience editing a 12-volume German edition of Arendt’s work.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

“A long-lost diary,” he continued, “regarding a doomed voyage undertaken by Lord Fredrick Ashton’s great-grandfather, Admiral Percival Racine Ashton. According to the archives, the book is part of the holdings of the Ashton library.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

"When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services," the spokeswoman added.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

A State Department spokesperson said all bilateral relations fact sheets were archived and removed because most hadn’t been updated in more than two years, leaving them potentially outdated or inaccurate.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

Luhrmann didn’t end up using the archived material in “Elvis.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

By combining fresh telescope data with more than a decade of archived observations, scientists were able to test and refine long standing theories about how the most massive stars end their lives.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2026

I explained how I’d seen Jesse install operating systems, play online games from chess to Quake, use astonishing ingenuity to gather archived information off the Web.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

That sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with users archiving chat histories and sharing last conversations.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

The promotion is part of the brand’s partnership with StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit focused on archiving the stories of everyday people.

From Salon Apr. 27, 2026

They added it would work with relevant bodies "to ensure NHS Wales practices in tissue archiving and access to genomic testing remain in the best interests of our patients".

From BBC Jan. 6, 2026

Through the Electronic Babylonian Library Platform, Jiménez and his team are digitally archiving all known cuneiform fragments from around the world.

From Science Daily Nov. 11, 2025

By archiving daily output, the translator would soon have access to an enormous "memory" of ready-made solutions for a considerable number of translation problems.

From Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert




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