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Recent Examples of relics
It's taken a team of Cambodian investigators led by Brad Gordon, an American lawyer, more than 10 years to document the theft of thousands of ancient statues and relics by a British collector named Douglas Latchford.
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Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
Those collectible objects are presented side by side with theatrical relics, historical artifacts, and items collected by Bob during his travels.
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Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
27 June 2026
Minions & Monsters opens with a Universal Studios tour that doubles as a crash course in Hollywood history, winding past relics from the silent era through the studio system.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2026
For golf cart operators, that evolution absolutely begins by ditching archaic lead-acid relics engineered for a bygone era.
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Malana Vantyler,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
Preservation advocates warn that selling wreck relics to private collectors risks turning a maritime grave into a billionaire trophy hunt, even as Titanic memorabilia command multimillion-dollar bids worldwide.
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Patrick Whittle,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Rainbow Springs State Park Thousands of years before Rainbow Springs State Park was established, Florida's Indigenous Timucua people visited these brilliant-blue springs, leaving stone tools, arrowheads, and other relics behind.
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Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Even the rarest materials—Basra pearls, Golconda diamonds—get new life in a striking pair of earrings from Santi that mimic Maharaja ornamentation without feeling like ancient relics.
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Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
Monuments, syllabi, grant priorities—these are not sacred relics but civic choices.
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The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
Anderson Cooper,
CBS News,
28 June 2026
Those collectible objects are presented side by side with theatrical relics, historical artifacts, and items collected by Bob during his travels.
—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
27 June 2026
Minions & Monsters opens with a Universal Studios tour that doubles as a crash course in Hollywood history, winding past relics from the silent era through the studio system.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2026
For golf cart operators, that evolution absolutely begins by ditching archaic lead-acid relics engineered for a bygone era.
—
Malana Vantyler,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
Preservation advocates warn that selling wreck relics to private collectors risks turning a maritime grave into a billionaire trophy hunt, even as Titanic memorabilia command multimillion-dollar bids worldwide.
—
Patrick Whittle,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
Rainbow Springs State Park Thousands of years before Rainbow Springs State Park was established, Florida's Indigenous Timucua people visited these brilliant-blue springs, leaving stone tools, arrowheads, and other relics behind.
—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
23 June 2026
Even the rarest materials—Basra pearls, Golconda diamonds—get new life in a striking pair of earrings from Santi that mimic Maharaja ornamentation without feeling like ancient relics.
—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
Monuments, syllabi, grant priorities—these are not sacred relics but civic choices.
—
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relics
corpse
Noun
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The family project is interrupted by the appearance of a corpse – that of an annoying neighbor (played by John Carroll Lynch) with a habit of buzzing his woodchipper in the middle of the family’s filmmaking efforts.
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One concern of mine was corpses.
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“Relics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relics. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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