libraries

NOUN

book repository

Synonyms

STRONG

athenaeum atheneum bibliotheca study

WEAK

book collection book room information center media center reference center

Example Sentences

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If education meant nothing more than providing rich content, libraries and YouTube would have put our schools out of business decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

For decades, tens of thousands of pages of these reports, orders and administrative records sat in libraries and archives across India and Britain.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

You do realize that libraries are older than paper, right?

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026

France's education minister, Edouard Geffray, announcing the measures, also said that some schools were resorting to municipal halls, libraries or other air-conditioned premises so that teaching could go on "in more suitable conditions".

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

Like Jesse, they use computers to distribute a growing variety of information on subjects and in places to which access has long been tightly controlled: legal and medical data, academic libraries, stock trading, films.

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