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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
Other nice touches are Nespresso machines on the countertop and interesting art pieces depicting cultural artifacts of the native Andean culture.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Investigators say Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva coordinated the operation while drawing on a long history of thefts involving rare books, manuscripts, and other cultural artifacts.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026
Based on analysis of artifacts uncovered at the site, a team of Spanish archaeologists believes this may have served as an ancient copper smelting spot, with far more frequent occupation by humans than previously thought.
—ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
Archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient artifacts in Egypt including Pharaonic funerary furniture, remains of a Roman basilica and a marble head of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty.
—ABC News, 1 June 2026
For those artifacts, establish policies that evaluate behavior before execution, including privilege use, persistence, network activity, file modification, data access and lateral movement potential.
—Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Among the artifacts found buried in the frozen earth were pewter military buttons from the First Pennsylvania Battalion, established in 1775 — which helped archaeologists date the remains back to the Revolutionary War, according to the museum.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
The museum is home to historic aircraft, space vehicles, and aviation artifacts, and volunteers like Connor help keep operations running smoothly.
—Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 24 May 2026
The director uses her loose crime movie template to chronicle a place still trapped in its troubled past — a past that gets dug up like all the ancient artifacts excavated by Veska and her crew — while facing a future of inertia and decline.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Investigators say Rodrigues de Oliveira Silva coordinated the operation while drawing on a long history of thefts involving rare books, manuscripts, and other cultural artifacts.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026
Based on analysis of artifacts uncovered at the site, a team of Spanish archaeologists believes this may have served as an ancient copper smelting spot, with far more frequent occupation by humans than previously thought.
—ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
Archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient artifacts in Egypt including Pharaonic funerary furniture, remains of a Roman basilica and a marble head of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love and beauty.
—ABC News, 1 June 2026
For those artifacts, establish policies that evaluate behavior before execution, including privilege use, persistence, network activity, file modification, data access and lateral movement potential.
—Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Among the artifacts found buried in the frozen earth were pewter military buttons from the First Pennsylvania Battalion, established in 1775 — which helped archaeologists date the remains back to the Revolutionary War, according to the museum.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
The museum is home to historic aircraft, space vehicles, and aviation artifacts, and volunteers like Connor help keep operations running smoothly.
—Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 24 May 2026
The director uses her loose crime movie template to chronicle a place still trapped in its troubled past — a past that gets dug up like all the ancient artifacts excavated by Veska and her crew — while facing a future of inertia and decline.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artifacts
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Sotheby’s is quite familiar with dinosaur fossils, of course.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
28 May 2026
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For the new study, Zietlow and her coauthors examined and reclassified fossils housed in more than a dozen institutions — specimens that had been misidentified as the species Tylosaurus proriger.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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While tossing old mementos into a fireplace, Long catches on fire in a wild slapstick sequence.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
1 June 2026
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From there, the last leg was an exercise in selfies and group photos in an attempt to capture what the trip had meant to us through visual mementos.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
11 May 2026
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Released commercially in the late 1970s, Post-it Notes became one of the world’s most recognizable office products, fundamentally changing note-taking, collaboration, reminders, and workplace organization.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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But many of the communities along the way offer reminders that the Mother Road once passed through their town.—
Joe Yogerst,
CNN Money,
27 May 2026
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Once considered delightfully kitschy relics of suburban Americana, porch geese are waddling their way back into the spotlight.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
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The 700-year-old circular Bellver Castle is an architectural gem, briefly used as royal residence, mostly as a ghastly political and military prison over six centuries, and now a museum of Roman and other relics.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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Unlike Diller’s, hers was laid-back and authoritative, with echoes of Miranda Priestly (another stylish doyenne with a beleaguered protégée).—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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There are the faintest echoes of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the Yorkshire Moors setting.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 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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Y’know, that certain vocal style or guitar tone or even decade-specific production tic that transports us like the meal at the end of Ratatouille to joyous remembrances of times past.—
Brendan Hay,
SPIN,
1 May 2026
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Yi’s studio is filled with the remnants of her works.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
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Cooling off The Earth has gradually cooled over time, and the scant remnants of its earliest history show us that major geologic processes evolved quite a bit as a result.—
Scott K. Johnson,
ArsTechnica,
26 May 2026
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On the Halloween after the crash, Shirilla and her friends dressed as corpses.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 May 2026
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One union was sealed by Satanic rite, alongside a pit of corpses.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 May 2026
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“Artifacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artifacts. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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