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curators

noun

plural of curator

as in guardians

a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc. a curator seeking an addition to the collection

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Recent Examples of curators Gotham Award nominees are selected by committees of critics, journalists, festival programmers and film curators. — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026 For decades, hundreds of thousands of its objects were available only to scholars and curators. — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Between sessions, one of MoMA’s media and performance curators, Martha Joseph, came over to introduce herself. — Nolan Kelly, Artforum, 26 Oct. 2026 That gallery show is now further documented in the form of a new monograph, featuring essays from various writers, critics and curators exploring the work of artists including Kennedy Yanko, Maia Ruth Lee, Uman and more. — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 Shanghai, China — One of China’s most exciting art curators, X Zhu-Nowell, is giving me a very Shanghai morning. — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026 Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Separately, Halpern said artists had been selected to create 16 official posters — eight Olympic and eight Paralympic — through a process involving nominations from regional curators. — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 The London edition of Frieze, a longstanding highlight on the global art calendar that draws an annual pilgrimage of high-net-worth collectors, advisors, dealers, curators, institutional directors and amateurs to the British capital. — Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026

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The incident did not involve personal information involving parents or guardians.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Officials said that parents and guardians may want to consider requesting a free credit freeze for their children who are under 16 to help prevent unauthorized accounts from being opened in the names of their children.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

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Shares of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, whose janitors clean 2 billion square feet of commercial property every day, have been written down to nothing.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Those excluded were primarily nurses, cooks and janitors stationed at state hospitals and prisons.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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In it, a young family with a lot of baggage become the soul caretakers of a grand hotel in the Colorado Rockies during the brutal winter months.

— Rebekah Faubion, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026
These changes may seem small, but with a fresh name and new caretakers, Howling Cow ice cream became an essential part of the NCSU student experience.

— Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2026

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Their private efforts have reached governors, election stewards and lawmakers from both parties who are increasingly alarmed that the administration may interfere in the midterms.

— Noah Robertson, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2026
The problem has long caused tension between Iowa’s more liberal urban centers, which rely on rivers and lakes for drinking water, and mostly conservative stewards of its rich farmland.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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