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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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The novel became an artifact of the contemporary moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

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

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

By including this artifact of his digital process, Gomez acknowledges that the painting’s subject is not reality as experienced on the streets of the city, but a constructed proposition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

“The Dagger of Serendib is a thousand-year-old historical artifact from our country that was stolen and taken away from its rightful home.”

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook




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