artifact
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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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.