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library

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


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Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata's National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

Before the initial increase for the building work, the Sovereign Grant in 2016-17 had been about £43m, which taking into account inflation, would now be about £58m, using figures from the House of Commons Library.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

That winter, he and Chakrabarti pored over the works of Paul Cret, the French-American architect who designed the Federal Reserve, the Folger Shakespeare Library and other buildings around Washington and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

The event "was so low-profile that neither the Denver Post nor Rocky Mountain News even bothered to send a reporter," noted Brian Trembath in a Denver Public Library blog.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

I know what I need—a new friend, waiting for me on a bookshelf at the Boston Public Library.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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