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archive

[ahr-kahyv] / ˈɑr kaɪv /


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It was a slice of Apple history that he’d never seen—because it was from a different archive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform GitHub.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Li’s daughter claimed he wanted to place the papers at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, which maintains an extensive China archive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

As well as plans for Titanic, the archive also contains the plans for her sister ships.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

I’ve read that newspaper clipping from the trunk more often that I can count, and spent time at the public library in the archive of “periodicals”—such a strange word.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone