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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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There are vitrines throughout, filled with fine jewelry, asteroid chunks and a brontosaurus tooth; some of them have drink rails, where a martini can rest beside an artifact that’s hundreds of millions of years old.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

And for posterity, his “Experimental Telephone” can be found at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American as an artifact of American enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

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

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

As you know, the gift we sent, the carved gemstone, is not simply an artifact of ye olden days.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin




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