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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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But they only want him as an AI chatbot or an artifact of banger memes; they don’t want to live in his reality.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Section 122 is an artifact of the bygone Bretton Woods fixed-rate exchange system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

It is exceptionally rare for even one such artifact to go to market, let alone a billion-dollar group of them at once, Walker said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

"Neither was the case: Paranthropus was as widespread and versatile as Homo and the new find shows that its absence in the Afar was an artifact of the fossil record."

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

But there is one thing archaeologists, scientists, historians, and even casual observers agree on: the astonishing gearwork is far more technologically sophisticated than anyone had expected from an artifact of this time.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler