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a lingering indication of something from the past
The spelling of "trough" is an artifact of the way it was originally pronounced.
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Recent Examples of artifacts
The beginning of a distinctly eastern artistic tradition The importance of Tunnug 1 extends beyond the extraordinary collection of artifacts.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
After working for the state, Rocchetta has played a key role in the historical society whose museum includes artifacts like a traveling embalming table.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
This is not a dusty collection or hodgepodge of Gold Rush artifacts placed around a xeriscape.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
The archives in SubTropolis and artifacts on display at the Chiefs Hall of Honor couldn’t be in better hands.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
But there was nothing inside the mound, no bones or artifacts.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Napoleonic artifacts lay scattered around the skeletons.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2025
In January robbers blew up the door to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to loot artifacts including a gold helmet from around 450 BC.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
After working for the state, Rocchetta has played a key role in the historical society whose museum includes artifacts like a traveling embalming table.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
This is not a dusty collection or hodgepodge of Gold Rush artifacts placed around a xeriscape.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
The archives in SubTropolis and artifacts on display at the Chiefs Hall of Honor couldn’t be in better hands.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
But there was nothing inside the mound, no bones or artifacts.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Napoleonic artifacts lay scattered around the skeletons.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2025
In January robbers blew up the door to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands to loot artifacts including a gold helmet from around 450 BC.
—Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artifacts
Noun
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Other scientists have found shark-teeth fossils.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, collecting bones and transporting them over great distances.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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All of these items are unique—mementos of lives and events long past—and are kept in the library archive until somebody requests to see them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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By the time he was brought in, Assouline and Nike had already begun compiling and photographing some of the numerous mementos from the life and career of Jordan that serve as the backbone of the book, many of which have never been seen.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Step into a time warp of vintage gas pumps, racing memorabilia, and unusual roadside relics at Mendenhall’s Museum.—
Maggie Downs,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Oct. 2025
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Eight other jewels - all relics of France's imperial history - remain missing.—
NPR,
NPR,
25 Oct. 2025
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There are occasional reminders that the Mafia lingers.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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The glasses can also show drivers turn-by-turn directions, hazards and reminders via display that overlays information in their field of view.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Game 1 of the World Series, a stunning 11-4 trouncing of the Dodgers, had echoes of the Skubal game.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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This polarization means even post-Trump, Democrats may cling to divisive issues like defund-the-police echoes or aggressive cultural wars, repelling the non-ideological public weary of extremes.—
Nafees Alam,
Twin Cities,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the comments of the post, Santos’s friends and followers posted remembrances for the late bodybuilding icon.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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All these remembrances are motivated, finally, by a desire to save, to whatever extent possible, people and stories and the truth as the authors understand it from impending oblivion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone supernova — can get, researchers have found a way to test the properties of nuclear physics under very extreme conditions.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The surviving remnants of colonies, mainly located toward the north end of the reef system, are also vulnerable to disease, predators and storm damage.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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The character was loosely inspired by Ed Gein, a real serial killer and grave robber from Wisconsin who dug up corpses and used their bones and skin to make everything from clothing to furniture and even silverware.—
Keith Langston,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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And the mass graves of corpses evicted from San Francisco cemeteries a century ago.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Artifacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artifacts. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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