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Recent Examples of relics
These relics may contain explosives like TNT, chemical remnants, and even nuclear material.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
While the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution put an end to the legal dumping of unused explosive munitions in the sea, these relics now provide a rich area of study for marine biologists, offering a real-world look at how animals adapt to habitat disturbances.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2025
Sonar revealed ancient relics along the sea floor, including a series of colossal structures standing 20 feet high and arranged in rows, as well as several anchors and amphora.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Interesting relics were then revealed, including what’s believed to be a Ford Model T and concrete steps that led to nowhere, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
—Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
Comets are among the most captivating wanderers of the solar system — icy relics from its earliest days that blaze across the sky with glowing tails and mysterious origins.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Not a house of relics, not a memorial.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In the Modern Age, players can command the Mexican civilization and fight over historic relics or other end-game goals with the Russians.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
While the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution put an end to the legal dumping of unused explosive munitions in the sea, these relics now provide a rich area of study for marine biologists, offering a real-world look at how animals adapt to habitat disturbances.
—New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2025
Sonar revealed ancient relics along the sea floor, including a series of colossal structures standing 20 feet high and arranged in rows, as well as several anchors and amphora.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Interesting relics were then revealed, including what’s believed to be a Ford Model T and concrete steps that led to nowhere, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
—Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2025
Comets are among the most captivating wanderers of the solar system — icy relics from its earliest days that blaze across the sky with glowing tails and mysterious origins.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Not a house of relics, not a memorial.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
In the Modern Age, players can command the Mexican civilization and fight over historic relics or other end-game goals with the Russians.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Now supposedly dying from some terminal illness, Julian has gone total hermit mode inside of his cluttered London apartment, where the walls are festooned with the relics of his success and the backrooms are a junk pile of painful memories.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relics
corpse
Noun
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Alongside using the corpses to create furniture for his house, Ed also began constructing a skin suit of a woman made from human remains of at least 15 women, per A&E.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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Ed Gein, who became infamous for crimes committed in rural Plainfield, Wisconsin, admitted to the killing of two women and stealing corpses from graves.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Relics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relics. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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