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library

[lahy-brer-ee, -bruh-ree, -bree] / ˈlaɪˌbrɛr i, -brə ri, -bri /


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Ellison’s willingness to bring them in shows a recognition that he’s not just buying a library, a lot and IP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Sally Phillips, actor and narrator of the newly reissued Winnie-the-Pooh audiobooks, launched the campaign earlier by reading to schoolchildren at a phone box library in Chartham, Kent.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“We’re allowed to read all of them?” asks Carrie, when shown the school library.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The teacher took him to the library, where El-Sayed encountered writers like W.E.B.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I’m rereading my copies right now, but I think the library has a set.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Some of the decommissioned boxes are repurposed as mini libraries or coffee kiosks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But those computers, which were trained on libraries of grandmaster-level games, were cave men compared to what was coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

For those of us in love with the past, libraries are magnetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Béatrice’s world is inside scholarly libraries and teak-paneled restaurants with colleagues, where screens are blessedly few.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Coins are, in fact, so important to our knowledge of what has gone on before us that they have been called both “newspapers in metal” and “miniature libraries of history.”

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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