How to Use archivist in a Sentence

archivist

noun
  • No one wanted to hire her as an archivist, the focus of her graduate education.
    Natalie Kitroeff, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • In a three-part blog series, an archivist details the painstaking and perilous process of preserving the book in digital form.
    Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
  • Scroll down for a rare look at the former family apartment, courtesy of archivist Jason Bouchard.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The act is simply a gift, paid for by further weakening the ability of archivists to keep our culture accessible.
    Lawrence Lessig, WIRED, 18 May 2018
  • The federal archivists try to make sure that governmental data and software of lasting import last.
    Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Reps for the Riders reached out to their historian, museum curator and archivist to see if anyone had seen it.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 25 May 2018
  • Sullivan works as a records manager and archivist for Boston police, but is undertaking the project on her own .
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
  • There’s an attorney, an engineer, a finance guy, a law student, a dog/horse rescuer, a bookstore buyer, and a former state archivist.
    Michael Clevenger, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2018
  • Her mother, Ann Malone, serves as the archivist and has authored two books about La Porte history.
    Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 27 May 2018
  • Instead of three dozen heartfelt letters shut up in a desk, future historians and archivists will have to sift through not haystacks, but entire hay fields worth of memories and records.
    Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But over four years, Crane and Collins—with help from friends, staffers, archivists, curators, historians and other experts—pieced together the story.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Will Purdue archivist Adriana Harmeyer claim win No. 15?
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024

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