found object

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Recent Examples of found object At Zwirner, a dimly gallery gives these solemn figures an air of reverence, with the stitched fabric and found objects of The Last Transmission (2024) resembling an offering to someone departed. Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 19 Feb. 2025 Especially in periods when camp rules allowed detainees to create artwork in their cells, the artists’ use of prison detritus and found objects made the artwork more than simply a depiction of what the men lacked, desired or imagined. Alexandra Moore, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025 Each of the artists explores themes of identity, migration, labor and place through various mediums, such as painting, found objects and video installations. Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024 The excavation found objects relating to the furnishing and renovation of the house. James Powel, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for found object
Recent Examples of Synonyms for found object
Noun
  • Fewer exotics than past expansions, far fewer, in many instances.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • These are very tastefully laid off, with walks and carriage drives, and are covered with a profusion of rare exotics, beautiful flowers, and semi-tropical plants of every variety known to this climate.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Walk through the quaint lobby to find another hidden gem, the Sax Garden, a romantic French-style garden restaurant, complete with a heated outdoor pool (a rarity in Paris), checkerboard marble floors and green foliage.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This difficult position might explain why Putin’s grip over even his own loyal underlings is slipping as more economic officials speak out with warnings over the dire state of the economy—a rarity in Putin’s command and control system.
    Time, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • While some objets d'art are thrifted finds, many are custom made by artists and producers Gelman has found—or who have found Gelman.
    Jess Feldman, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
  • Throughout, there are design nods to the building’s former purpose with pleated headboards evoking the folds of judicial robes and legal scales doubling as objets d'art, while the muted color palette feels lifted from a Dutch Old Master.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Holy rara avis, Batman!
    Peter Mehlman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Sitting in the center, with a passenger seat to the left and right, the lucky driver will feel equally at home in the US, the UK or anywhere a long stretch of pavement invites this rara avis to soar.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
Noun
  • The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.
    Vivian Gornick, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Alves devoted part of that speech to the wonders of this country by providing the blessings of freedom and opportunity to people like him.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Depending on where these curios are sold, they might also be referred to as Jenny Hanivers, garadiávolos or rayas chupacabras.
    Peter Kyne, The Conversation, 16 June 2025
  • What was once a curio of a career was on its way to becoming an industry standard—and an object of intense public fascination and borderline-prurient media attention.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • This early curiosity taught me to appreciate diversity in value—each currency held meaning beyond its number.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Lead these conversations with curiosity, not judgment.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Themes Woven from Everyday Wonder Rather than searching for drama, Bone Flute leans into the quiet marvels of everyday experience.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • On Helgoland, researchers presented a parade of technological marvels that all depend on the quantum math of Heisenberg and Schrödinger.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025

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“Found object.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/found%20object. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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