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He would become a keeper of junkyards—overgrown lost worlds of relic chariots.

Today Friedman’s doctrine, like many relics of the 1970s, is viewed as a bit of a cartoon.

From Quartz

Most notably, Switzerland completely overhauled its epidemic law, a relic from 1886.

From Ozy

It’s one of the most amusing ongoing appendage-measuring contests in media, a relic of the TV era and an example of how the fiercest battles are often fought over the most inconsequential things.

From Digiday

One thing that’s keeping them alive is relic organic matter deposited from the ocean in an earlier geologic era.

Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

Orphans is a true literary relic: a small shapely paperback that is tough to track down, thanks to a limited print run.

And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia.

Enjoy Messi while you can—he might play on for a few years yet but everything he represents is already a relic.

Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.

No one who visits Salisbury will forget Stonehenge, the most remarkable relic of prehistoric man to be found in Britain.

A relic, saved no doubt from the wreck of the Abbaye de Chelles, stood like an ornament on the chimney-piece.

The Tuscan people set great store by the possession of this relic, and have engraved a representation of it upon their coins.

This is, perhaps, almost beneath the dignity of the love-story, but we have to regard it as a relic.

The Bourg is empty and dark, steeped in black shadows at the door of the chapel where the relic has been laid to rest.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to relic, such as: antique, antiquity, artifact, curio, evidence, and fragment.

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

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