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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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Conducted this week by correspondent Eric Cortellessa and top editor Sam Jacobs, the 11,000-word interview is in some ways an unremarkable artifact of the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 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

Yet “Scattered Steel,” like its subject, is a powerful artifact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

I think of this syrup tin as an ancient artifact, like something dug up out of a tomb.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Researchers can refine scanning methods and computer algorithms on expendable models rather than experimenting directly on irreplaceable ancient artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Unlike the many delicate original artifacts elsewhere in the exhibition, this one was made to let visitors get close and take home their own slightly unsettling family portrait.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Beachcombers scooped up artifacts including beer cans from the early 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The artifacts were then taken to the conservation laboratory of the Cultural Properties Preservation Bureau in Seoul, where they underwent lengthy conservation procedures.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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