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the person in charge of a museum or other collection- She is the curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts.
- The Museum was given up to Indian arts and manufactures, and anybody who sought wisdom could ask the Curator to explain.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- The curator of the botanical gardens gave them to me.Rider H. Haggard -- King Solomon's Mines
- The curator was there again, introducing him to the sponsors of the show.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- While his mother met with the curators, Paul called Michelle to explain what had happened and to tell her he would not be at her concert after all.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- At least fifty thousand dollars, the curators had estimated.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The curators would be pleased.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- David's work was in favor again, worth quite a lot of money; curators were coming tomorrow to view the collection.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The curator of the show stuck his head inside, his blue eyes bright with curiosity and concern.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Don't, she thought, but the curator cleared his throat and gave an uncomfortable laugh, and David said, "No problem."Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Norah imagined the shocked and outraged voices of the curators, friends, of her son, even of a part of herself, imagined them crying out, But you're destroying history!Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The curator of the show hovered at the edge of the group, anxious for David to mingle, but when a break came in the questions, Caroline stepped forward and put her hand on David's arm.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- Those Polaroids of Phoebe that Caroline had sent over the years, found hidden in the back of a darkroom drawer after the curators had gone; the single photograph of his father's family too, the one Paul still had, standing on the porch of their lost home.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar's renowned collection of medical specimens.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- "Welcome," says a curator, sitting at a round white desk.Ally Condie -- Matched
- A great doorway opened ahead of them, and they were in the office of the Curator for Earth.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- But when I told the curator, Kovach, about it, he only laughed.Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
- None of the girl students wants to be an artist; instead they want to be teachers of art in high schools, or, in one case, a curator in a gallery.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- Katie is the younger woman, the curator.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- We wandered around while Uncle Julian went to talk to a curator upstairs.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
curator = someone in charge of a museum or other collection
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