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as in memento
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 artifact
These artifacts help place people in the time when the original Fort Christmas stood.
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Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
Now evidence of trip is found One of the artifacts was a terret ring, which would have been used on Celtic chariots to help guide the horse reins, the organization said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Deep inside headquarters of the Baltimore Police Department, a vault holds thousands of artifacts from a generation of gun crime and clues to a tide that may be turning.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
Proceeds will benefit the Springsteen Center’s mission to not only preserve artifacts related to the Boss’ career but also produce exhibitions and other programs celebrating American music in all its forms.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 28 Jan. 2025
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Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
Now evidence of trip is found One of the artifacts was a terret ring, which would have been used on Celtic chariots to help guide the horse reins, the organization said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
Deep inside headquarters of the Baltimore Police Department, a vault holds thousands of artifacts from a generation of gun crime and clues to a tide that may be turning.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
Proceeds will benefit the Springsteen Center’s mission to not only preserve artifacts related to the Boss’ career but also produce exhibitions and other programs celebrating American music in all its forms.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for artifact
Noun
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In the fossil, the hard-to-digest bits of sea lily were encompassed in chalk.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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These types of fossils are known technically as regurgitalites.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Store books, candles, lamps, mementos, and more on the unit.—
Kelsey Fredricks,
People.com,
2 Feb. 2025
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The 20-inch suitcase is great for storing clothes, mementoes, shoes, and other belongings thanks to its convenient cross straps to help hold items in place, while the 14-inch suitcase is ideal for holding toiletries, cosmetics, and other compact items.—
Kelsey Fredricks,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
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Relatively obscure Thracian art, for all its muscular power and authority, is a sobering reminder of our common fragility.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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For residents in two parking test areas in Highland Park and Payne-Phalen, the following parking rules should be observed: Weekly alternate side parking pilot areas ONLY: Sunday changeover reminder.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
9 Feb. 2025
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By Result By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter 0 A fan of retro-futurism and survivalist relics has taken things to a new level, sharing the opening of a 70-year-old can of emergency drinking water.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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There’s really no escaping this last relic of U.S. monoculture.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
30 Jan. 2025
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Yet absurdist echoes from her onetime status still chased her.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2025
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Painful echoes of the pandemic abounded and parents glanced anxiously at one another during dropoff.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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The digital detectors used by the camera suffered from an issue called quantum efficiency hysteresis, or QEH—when WF/PC took an image of a bright object, there was an afterimage left behind that would mess up later observations.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
16 Jan. 2025
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The afterimage of any one scene lasts in the human visual system for fractions of a second, Banna says.—
Charlotte Hu,
Scientific American,
31 Oct. 2024
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One other central, if not overriding, purpose of Holocaust remembrance, however, must be to think of the millions who were annihilated not as impersonal statistics but as individuals with names, faces, identities, dreams, and emotions.—
Menachem Z. Rosensaft,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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But Hunter and a handful of volunteers work to keep it accessible to visitors for small gestures like these: moments of humor, connection and remembrance.—
Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
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With a sultry, woodsy appeal, Le Labo Another 13 smells like the remnants of a forest bath on the skin.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
8 Feb. 2025
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The site is surrounded by the remnants of a tall grass prairie that once covered millions of acres of Minnesota and the West.—
John Diers,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Artifact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artifact. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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