How to Use archivist in a Sentence

archivist

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  • The heroes, set like the Leica on a pedestal, are the archivists.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The archivist is set to hand over more documents in the weeks and months to come.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The archivist had found the correct page for each record and marked it with a sheet of paper.
    — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The archivists soak the document to dissolve the glue and then peel off the old silking.
    — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • Baggett, the city archivist, said the jail pages should wind up somewhere people can see them.
    — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Speier says her plan would negate the archivist’s dilemma.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Instead, the archivist dropped off just three boxes for González to sort through.
    — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Media Burn’s Dan Erdman is one of the archivists involved with the event.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Durran found the piece by asking Chanel’s archivist to look into an ’80s evening dress in a light color with a kick out at the hem.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • For archivists, 1870 is the year everything begins to turn to dust.
    — Maria Bustillos, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The process started in July, when Phelps reached out to the archivist Molly Kodner.
    — Ben Simon St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Moss is Kirby, an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times in the good old days for big-city newspapers.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2022
  • An archivist also introduced him to a survivor who agreed to show him the camp.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Hallel Yadin is an archivist and writer in New York City.
    — Hallel Yadin, Longreads, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Sol Katz is a 41-year-old trans archivist in San Francisco.
    — The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • This has been a strange year to be an archivist, a role that seeks to illuminate the present by excavating the past.
    — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Eric Voelz, an archivist who has worked at the St. Louis archive for three decades, looked at the document and pronounced it a forgery.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The archivist who found the 44-page file, Włodzimierz Lechnio, thinks that is jumping to a hasty conclusion.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Morse, another church archivist, stood next to a young couple and their infant, the newest member of the Church of the Advent.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The national archivist has been struggling to get them back.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Film archivists are working to save the Afghan movies hidden during years of Taliban rule.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The state is now expected to submit copies of the resolution to the U.S. archivist and others.
    — NBC News, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Veronica ends up stranded in the Frick during a snow storm, along with archivist Joshua Lawrence.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Sara Manco, our senior photo archivist, was struck by the daring of the men, hanging by a rope on the side of a cliff instead of using the rod-and-reel method.
    — National Geographic, 19 June 2020
  • Magnum and other archivists had to really do that work from their point of view.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tom Owen is an archivist at the University of Louisville.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This is not a portrait of the archivist as storyteller but as a rapt listener.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But a dogged archivist at Our Lady of the Lake University took the challenge.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2021
  • Four years later, Eichenberg’s become something of a noted archivist in the vintage nail polish space.
    — C. Shardae Jobson, Allure, 18 Sep. 2024
  • During the tour, guests will be able to chat with a curator or archivist and will receive a special commemorative challenge coin and a 10% discount in the Harley-Davison shop.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 23 July 2024

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