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 The two-person musical follows a love story through the paper artifacts of a relationship, including letters, menus and train tickets to shopping lists and postcards. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026 Based on their analysis of ancient artifacts and contextual information, the Iron Age ruler Verica was a woman, not a man. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Nov. 2026 Larger artifacts on the site include weapons in the burials, horse gear and animal-style motifs. — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026 Slower pixel transitions can create motion artifacts such as ghosting. — ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026 Dark frames, taken with light blocked from the sensor, help correct for artifacts created by the camera’s image sensor itself. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026 The handover on Monday traces back to when an American auction house listed Anatolian artifacts for sale. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2026 In his telling, Hobby Lobby often bought artifacts and donated them to the museum, which brought the company tax benefits. — Steven John, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2026 The textbook was one of many artifacts that revealed just how much research went into Christie’s work — and tangible proof that the author had a deep understanding of medications and deadly chemical concoctions, Rowland said. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Claims of prehistoric chemistry persisting in fossils aren’t new.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
But the discovery shows that even in rock formations where thousands of fossils have already been collected, an entirely unexpected species can still be hiding in plain sight.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of fossils

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War souvenirs are a largely universal occurrence, Dickey said, and World War II saw Americans returning home with plenty of mementos from Europe, including Nazi paraphernalia like pins and insignias.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
For some time, Ming’s cruiser sat outside the Wyandotte County Courthouse, where it was adorned with flowers and other mementos.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of mementos

Noun

And around the world, wars and religious persecution have destroyed prayer books, Bibles, Qurans, Torah scrolls, statues, iconography, shrines, relics and many other materials considered venerable.

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Architectural relics from the Nazi era can help people draw lessons from the past.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of relics

Noun

Each red flag warning brings reminders of the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angeles, and tests whether officials have heeded the lessons from the Eaton and Palisades fires.

— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
The Kansas-Middle Tennessee, Kansas-Western Carolina and KU-Northern Arizona games serve as reminders that the Jayhawks, on more than one occasion, were willing to buck that trend.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of reminders

Noun

Unlike active sonar, which sends out sound pulses and analyzes their echoes, passive sonar listens without transmitting signals.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2026
While the intentionally spare design of the MacBook Pro has influenced dozens of Windows laptops, the echoes ring particularly loud for the Surface Laptop Ultra.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of echoes

Noun

The damage comes only a year after intense October 2025 flooding, driven by the remnants of Pacific cyclones.

— Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2026
Scientists can spot remnants of gamma-ray bursts by looking for X-rays and optical light as the gamma rays themselves fade.

— Mary Ogborn, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of remnants

Noun

Four of the mummified corpses also tested positive for alcohol, which likely came from drinking chicha, a beer made out of maize.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
The roach morgue under the dishwashing table held 11 roach corpses, and the one under racks of clean dishes held another 11.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

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