archivist

noun

ar·chi·vist ˈär-kə-vist

-ˌkī-

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: a person who has the job of collecting and storing the materials in an archive

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Stern didn’t set out to become the internet’s bad-boss archivist. — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026 Publicly accessible early versions of some games released before this SteamPipe transition had been considered lost content by archivists, no longer accessible from Valve itself and living on only as local downloads on aging machines. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026 Kemerer became the unofficial archivist of Los Angeles’s king of house moving, George Kress, after buying Kress’s former home. — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026 Before Vine was gone for good, volunteer internet archivists preserved many of its videos for posterity and Divine used this archive to restore some of the internet’s favorites. — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for archivist

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1753, in the meaning defined above

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archivist

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ar·chi·vist ˈär-kə-vəst

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: a person in charge of archives

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