archival
adjective
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Definition of archival
: of, relating to, contained in, suitable for, or constituting archives
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Other Words from archival
archivally
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Examples of archival in a Sentence
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The Talking to Strangers audiobook is essentially a super-sized podcast episode, with excerpts from Gladwell’s recorded interviews, archival audio, conversations re-created by actors, and even music. — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, "Why Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers is an audiobook for the podcast generation," 10 Sep. 2019 And all the other footage — of Stills, McGuinn, Nash, Young, Hillman — is archival. — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, "David Crosby asks we ‘Remember My Name,’ but is it too late to do that in a good way for his former bandmates?," 2 Sep. 2019 That makes sense considering that the software’s smarts come from patterns found in archival data. — James Vincent, The Verge, "This AI-powered autocompletion software is Gmail’s Smart Compose for coders," 24 July 2019 In archival drawers were convict leg irons from the early 1800s, jars of antique marsupial specimens, copperplate etchings of native plants made by naturalists on Capt. — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, "A 42,000-Year-Old Man Finally Goes Home," 23 Aug. 2019 Fan sites, bolstered by the launch of archival projects like the Organization for Transformative Works, functioned as our proxy public square. — Laurie Penny, WIRED, "We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop Culture," 19 Aug. 2019 As part of Target's 20 years of designer partnerships celebration, nine pieces from the archival collection will be reissued. — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, "The 9 Rodarte Pieces Heading Back to Target," 14 Aug. 2019 After the explicit content promotion was noticed, Twitch quickly reverted Ninja's page the standard archival mode, as normal. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Twitch backtracks after accidentally showing porn on Ninja’s old page," 12 Aug. 2019 With its shifting light shaped by the mountainous forms above, the central courtyard will be circled by an interconnected and flexible ring of galleries, meeting rooms, offices and archival space, plus a cafe and gift shop. — Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, "Korean American museum design calls for a lush rooftop garden and a sense of mystery," 12 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'archival.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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