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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
Investigators later traced the roughly 400-year-old artifact to a New England antiques dealer, who had purchased it from another dealer in Italy.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
Artist Karl Haendel, who worked on the installations, said the art connects local residents with artifacts from nearby museums.
—City News Service, Daily News, 8 May 2026
Kanal was instrumental in collating over 500 artifacts.
—Leena Tailor, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
The cupcake-frosted Neoclassical villas and grand hotels, decorated with swoopy Art Nouveau curlicues, are artifacts of the Belle Époque, left behind like parade floats by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
Artist Karl Haendel, who worked on the installations, said the art connects local residents with artifacts from nearby museums.
—City News Service, Daily News, 8 May 2026
Kanal was instrumental in collating over 500 artifacts.
—Leena Tailor, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
The cupcake-frosted Neoclassical villas and grand hotels, decorated with swoopy Art Nouveau curlicues, are artifacts of the Belle Époque, left behind like parade floats by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
—Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for artifact
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As a child, David loved collecting fossils and animals.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
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During one visit, riders might notice Siegel’s photograph of a mammoth tusk — a fossil uncovered by crews during construction of the station.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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Along with exhibits of skeletons, mummies, and Revolutionary War mementos, the museum included an entire floor of dioramas and panoramic paintings.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Each guest will end the party with a pile of mementos to take home.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 May 2026
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At a time when the football commentariat in Italy is proposing that the entire system of Italian football be demolished, Sassuolo act as a reminder than not all is bad.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Hopefully, the next generation of baseball fans will stay familiar with his career thanks to this reminder.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Why the Stars want Jamie Benn back In an era where loyalty is for losers and a relic from a bygone era, the Stars and Benn’s feelings for the other are old school.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 May 2026
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Legend has it that these relics are the remains of martyrs from the early days of Christianity in Rome that were discovered in the 16th century in unmarked graves in the city's catacombs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
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But does that have echoes in what’s going on outside our window?—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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In an echo of Pliny the Younger’s account, the second skeleton, that of a somewhat older man, was found with a terracotta bowl near his head.—
Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
4 May 2026
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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
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But her teachers at the school left important afterimages.—
Gia Kourlas,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2025
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The remembrance event takes place every May.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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Romvari does an effective job of highlighting the fragility of our remembrances and how the actions from the past affect us to this day.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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While there are traces of the home’s original state, including remnants of wallpaper under the basement stairs, much has been changed in the Prevost family’s absence.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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“Artifact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artifact. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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