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relic

[rel-ik] / ˈrɛl ɪk /


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Seeing it up close and personal is like a viewing a religious relic, at least for those of us who worship in the Church of Cinema.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Yet for some, Ali G is a relic of the past whose cultural appropriation is no longer funny.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

This relic of combustion awakens in the morning with the refinement of a coffee grinder, winding at around 3,000 rpm until the catalytic converter heats up and the revs fall back to idle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The Tag Heuer Monaco is an interesting relic of Art Deco design if it isn’t also the watch Steve McQueen wore in “Le Mans.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Instead, as we moved from one relic to the next, they debated philosophy—Hobbes and Descartes, Aquinas and Machiavelli.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Elsewhere around the county, traces of centuries-old gardens were found in Bishop's Palace in Wells, while relics of old structures were uncovered at Glastonbury Abbey due to the record-breaking summer temperatures.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The people who work at Arion certainly don’t see themselves, or their work, as relics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

If so, these relics could still affect how galaxies are structured billions of years later.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Of my mother I remember next to nothing, only hard eyes that seemed to float like relics in her forehead, and her voice, so queer and feathery.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García


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