Thesaurus results for ARTIFACTS

artifacts

noun

plural of artifact

as in fossils

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 mementos

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 This new era signifies the Levine’s transition from a non-collecting to a collecting institution, bringing in artifacts including photographs and personal letters. — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026 The installation, a partnership between Bedrock and the Detroit Historical Society that runs through 2026, paints a picture of the building’s storied history with artifacts from the restoration, period newspaper clippings, maps, and photos. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026 The sheriff's office said the institution declined to press charges, and the artifacts were returned to the fort. — CBS News, 30 July 2026 With artifacts like the bullets, archaeologists now have a better understanding of where the nearly two-century-long struggle finally ended—and who took responsibility for the conquest. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026 Kathy Balkman, chapter chair of the America 250 Committee, and Teresa Staples worked with state Capitol curators Jen Hughes and Michael Higgs to plan the exhibit and collect various items and artifacts. — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 29 July 2026 When an employee leaves a company, existing legal protections (such as IP clauses in employment contracts) prevent them from taking physical artifacts such as code and design documents to their new employers. — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 But Crown’s true motives are to return precious stolen or sold artifacts to their rightful creators. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 29 July 2026 The artifacts displayed at the repatriation ceremony include several stone axe heads. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026

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Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for about 180 million years, but only a few thousand near-complete fossils have been discovered.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Lambert, who grew up searching for fossils in England, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that a squirrel happened to draw his attention toward the rock near a riverbank.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026

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My father did not like clutter and as such did not save many knickknacks and mementoes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Seaver, who died in 2020, left most of his personal mementos to the Hall of Fame, including balls and jerseys from his most famous victories, knee pads that protected him from raspberries in his famous drop-and-drive delivery.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026

Definition of mementos

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The recent release of 2026 Topps Chrome Baseball features Back-to-Back Gold Logoman patch autographed one-of-a-kind cards of Ohtani and Judge, taking those relics from jerseys worn in each of their 2024 and 2025 MVP seasons.

— Larry Holder, New York Times, 27 July 2026
Without a mentor to guide him, Aang spends his spare time hunting for Air Nomad relics in an attempt to connect with his ancestry.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026

Definition of relics

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But Thomas Tuchel took those echoes and put a colossal microphone in front of them, cranking up the decibels to make this failure worse than the others.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Whatever its international echoes, the exhibition incited local responses by far-right entities.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of echoes

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Caught between two opposing cultures, drawing on a cache of letters, documents, and remembrances, Ferrer meticulously recounts the travails of one migrant family and a punitive legal system that dogged them, skewering ideals of equity and fairness.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
His life was celebrated in admiring headlines and remembrances that noted his continuous exploration of the possibilities of his art form.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 16 June 2026

Definition of remembrances

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The hazardous surf is being sent from tropical storm systems south of California, including Tropical Storm Fausto and the remnants of Tropical Storm Elida.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Astronomers have detected about 300 such remnants in our galaxy to date.

— Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of remnants

Noun

The village’s daily rhythms are ordered by the passing trains—until a train arrives from Pakistan loaded with the corpses of Sikh refugees, and the community is made to cremate the dead.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Of course, corpses don’t really look like Madeline did, after she’d been made up.

— John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026

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