preservationist
Example Sentences
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Among other drawbacks, she notes, “films have disintegrated because preservationists can’t digitize them.”
From Los Angeles Times
Architects and preservationists have rallied against the plan, too.
He hopes the preservationists succeed, despite the odds.
From Los Angeles Times
In 1975, when the medieval Czech town of Most was demolished to make way for coal mining, scientists and preservationists transported a 10,000-ton church half a mile on custom-built rails.
It sat vacant for over 20 years, while animal and human scavengers ransacked the ten-acre site and claimed it for their own, before it was rescued in the 1990s by architectural preservationists.
From Salon
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