museum piece

as in artifact
something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period that old wooden ironing board she uses is a museum piece

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Recent Examples of museum piece More museum pieces refurbished & tested to send to the front. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025 And the drone, though only eight years old, is a museum piece. David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025 Their main phone, of course, had a cord and was stuck to the wall in the kitchen like a museum piece. Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025 Signs like this are museum pieces that are out there still doing their thing, as much as the Statue of Liberty or the Washington Monument, and they should be celebrated, not gutted. Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for museum piece
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Noun
  • Archaeologists, who conducted a dig around the site in 2023, collected artifacts painting a tableaux of workers enduring unhealthy conditions hoping to attain a middle-class rank, according to an archaeology report released in March.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2025
  • Upon graduation, my real awaking came in travel, particularly in Central America, stumbling across artifacts and cultural sacred sites that we were never taught about in school.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The agency alleged that Kubler used investor money to make Ponzi-like payments to earlier investors and also used that money for personal use, including payments to a winery, buying antiques and paying for online dating services.
    Sydney Sasser, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
  • Listen here The Madame Blanc Mysteries (Acorn TV): The fourth season of the crime drama turns to the wonderful world of Sainte Victoire, packed with unusual antiques and objéts d’art, murder, mystery, sunshine and laughter.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The SaaS model, once revolutionary, is now a relic.
    Deepinder Singh Sethi, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Her job was, in her estimation, a relic of a different time — the business no longer relies on broadcast network casting directors to discover talent through global searches and talent holding deals.
    Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025

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“Museum piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museum%20piece. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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