check archive

Frequency: 7.213.5 per million words

to look at something in an archive to find information

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Examples (10)

  • To verify the date, you'll need to check the national archive.
  • I checked the film archive but couldn't find the footage from 1952.
  • The system administrator will check the email archive to recover the lost message.
  • We have checked the extensive archives multiple times, but the file is missing.
  • The journalist needs to check the newspaper archive for articles related to the case.
  • Checking the university's historical archive is the first step in her research project.
  • If the online search yields no results, you might have to physically check the local archive.
  • The author's personal archive was carefully checked for unpublished manuscripts.
  • Did you check the Web archive to see what the website looked like last year?
  • Her job is to check the photographic archive and select images for the documentary.