archive
/ˈɑɹˌkaɪv/ noun C1- A repository or other place for storing material (such as documents and records) no longer in current use, and usually having historical value.
- The material so stored, considered as a whole. · His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
- A natural deposit of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time. · peat archive soil archive
- A collection, a repository.
Plural archives
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“At the sight of papers of all sorts,—titles, contracts, parchments, which were kept in the archives of the family, all descending from the poisoned cardinal, I in my turn examined the immense bundles of documents, like twenty servitors, stewards, secretaries before me; but in spite of the most exhaustive researches, I found—nothing.
My primary focus remains the extraction and analysis of deep ice cores, which are essentially frozen archives of atmospheric history.
As Elias delved deeper into the historical microfilm archives, he found himself increasingly invested in Clara's remarkable personal journey.
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