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archive

[ahr-kahyv] / ˈɑr kaɪv /


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Bhargava didn’t go quietly; according to legal filings, he threatened to delete Sports Illustrated’s archive of intellectual property.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

Li’s daughter claimed he wanted to place the papers at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, which maintains an extensive China archive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform GitHub.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

A famously theatrical monologue, given by a man as police arrested him at a Chinese restaurant in Australia, has officially been preserved by the country's national archive.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

A silence fell over the room as they read, interrupted only by the gentle rustling of pages turning and the creaking slide of drawers as Pet explored the archive.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi




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