Thesaurus results for ARTIFACT

artifact

noun

as in fossil

an object made by humans and surviving from an earlier time period The site was full of Stone Age artifacts such as flint tools.

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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 The building is certainly overstuffed—pre-Columbian artifacts, Chinese breezeway tiles, Indian chairs—but never stuffy, and often playful. —

Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026 The exhibition highlights the role Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played in shaping Davis’ artistic development and includes original sheet music and personal artifacts connected to Gillespie. —

J.m. Banks june 13, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2026 All the same, the artifacts represent the only archaeological finds from the Republican era. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026 Inside the Ava Gardner Museum, visitors will find costumes, scripts, photographs, personal artifacts, and exhibits spanning Gardner's five-decade career in Hollywood. —

Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for artifact

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This ocean region is known to host numerous species of beaked whales, and fossil skulls of such whales have been discovered nearby, snagged by trawlers or long-line fishing vessels in deep-sea regions off Iberia, South Africa and the Kerguelen Islands.

— Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
It was blended with conventional fossil kerosene by MB Energy before being successfully pumped into the aircraft at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026