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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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The car’s muted voice is likewise an artifact of stricter sound-pollution requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Why? Because if you hurt a model, it's fine. If you hurt a 2,300-year-old ancient artifact, you'll have a bunch of archeologists ready to jump you. Not to mention me jump you!"

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The wide spread may have been a lingering artifact of the Eurozone debt crisis that followed the financial crisis, but either way, it has started to widen.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

With each new artifact discovered, Peter Throckmorton’s bond with those who sailed on that vessel more than three thousand years before strengthened.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

In addition, the museum’s curators tended to be specialized in material culture — collecting and studying the museum’s several million objects and artifacts — rather than in conceptual storytelling.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

His molds, based on the form of a lion sculpture in the British Museum, delve into the politics of collecting and ponder what is lost when cultural artifacts are centralized in institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Still, the exhibitions spotlight ships, swords and artifacts of trade and travel, placing them front and center.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The RSF stole the artifacts in the same boxes where they were stored, said Jamal Zaid Al-Abideen, a veteran official at the National Corp. for Antiquities and Museums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Thus, as of the date of publication of this book, no physical artifacts from the vessel have been brought to the surface.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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