Thesaurus results for ARTIFACT

artifact

noun

Definition of artifact

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 three scoured data collected by the Chandra space telescope between 1999 and 2017 and painstakingly filtered out any random artifacts and other junk. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026 The song offers another artifact from the period when Dacus was still figuring out what No Burden could become. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 9 Sep. 2026 Raffles, silent and live auctions, merchandise sales, towers in light display, Maryland’s 9/11 Rolling Memorial, 9/11 artifacts will be on display. — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026 This is a novel about the limits of history and artifact, and about the pleasures of same. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for artifact

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Noun

This union of fossil energy and physical resources is consummated in those regions building infrastructure for private mobility, which rapidly escalated after the Second World War.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
To get a closer look at these details, paleontologists relied on neutron imaging to see the lighter elements present in the fossils as well as X-ray imaging to look at the heavier ones.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of fossil

Noun

But, Red Bull and its prioritizing of Verstappen aside, such an approach is a relic for modern teams.

— Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
In one glass case sits a face shield, a vaccine vial and a large bottle of hand sanitizer — already considered relics of another time.

— Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of relic

Noun

Turning Point Action is positioning itself to shape that contest, a reminder that preparations for the next White House campaign are already in motion even though no candidates have announced and the midterm elections aren't over yet.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
The sting of the title-game loss will remain, but a little reminder from the past — directly from the players who experienced it — certainly has the chance to leave a lasting impact for the future.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of reminder

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Nevertheless, the sight of the 20-year-old Slovenian riding clear up the famed Calo Alto, seven years on from a similarly callow Pogačar seizing his first Grand Tour stage victory, provide a resounding echo.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Jäger compares the sounds of techno to the noise of Detroit’s industrial machinery—the music that drove the ersatz utopias of the late twentieth century is, in other words, merely a synthetic echo of a far more vital past.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of echo

Noun

Those truths come together in a series of ands and buts, which layer upon and contradict each other, like the afterimages of Tullock in Stefania Bulbarella’s video design.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
That trailing effect isn’t a smear on its own, but their blades also leave afterimages, duplicate smears, along their path through space.

— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2025

Definition of afterimage

Noun

For years, Germany has built its identity on its leadership role in a broader and more open Europe and on its culture of remembrance – keeping the horrors of the Nazi regime ever fresh in thought.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
My schools had yearly remembrance ceremonies, and the stories of what my parents and their friends were doing that day were constant.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of remembrance

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But the remnants of Tropical Storm Edouard brought a merciful breeze, a cameo of clouds, and a spit of rain; with race day peaking at 97 degrees, this Texas endurance-racing test might have actually gotten lucky.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
And what’s dramatic about this is that having grown up on a remote mountain farm in the 1940s, away from almost any remnant of civilization, Mikey has zero context for his erotic yearnings.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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