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Recent Examples of relics
But the Turkish Riviera is ripe with relics and ancient architecture to uncover.
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Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
View the relics of ranching history.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
In his 70s, Trotter had given up diving, but not his quest to find the lost relics.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Israelis and Palestinians are left without a script or compass other than relics of earlier days.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Yet, as Beech pointed out, a lot of the material goods actually from the ‘70s are of a lower quality than earlier decades and also more degraded than the period relics of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
The historic treasures — which included a statue of a sphinx, Roman coins and other relics— were brought to shore by archaeologists and divers from the waters of Abu Qir Bay near the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, The Associated Press reported.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Metal detector enthusiasts in central Queensland have uncovered relics from a former United States Army base that operated during World War II, meeting regularly at a bushland site once used by tens of thousands of American troops, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
White dwarfs — the superdense, slowly cooling embers left behind when stars like our sun die — are usually quiet cosmic relics.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
View the relics of ranching history.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
In his 70s, Trotter had given up diving, but not his quest to find the lost relics.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Israelis and Palestinians are left without a script or compass other than relics of earlier days.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Yet, as Beech pointed out, a lot of the material goods actually from the ‘70s are of a lower quality than earlier decades and also more degraded than the period relics of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
The historic treasures — which included a statue of a sphinx, Roman coins and other relics— were brought to shore by archaeologists and divers from the waters of Abu Qir Bay near the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, The Associated Press reported.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Metal detector enthusiasts in central Queensland have uncovered relics from a former United States Army base that operated during World War II, meeting regularly at a bushland site once used by tens of thousands of American troops, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relics
corpse
Noun
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She is charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant, the Lexington Police Department said in a news release.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The scene in which Mary Ellen walks through a maze of corpses only to find one of herself?—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Relics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relics. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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