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antique

[an-teek] / ænˈtik /




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They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

One figure is cloaked in ghostly white, the fabric’s surface dotted with antique metal ex-votos, religious offerings made for divine protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Today, surviving examples are "exceptionally scarce", according to antique shop WeBuyVintage, which has valued the item at £2,500.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It also featured what we’d now call a “vintage” kitchen, featuring antique appliances.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Chuchi Flores, who owned the boutique clothing shop down the block, sipped on sparkling red juice while she spoke excitedly with Estelle Anderson, who owned the antique store next to Chuchi’s.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

His father, Francisco, worked in a shoe factory and later as an antiques dealer.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Most of the home’s antiques are Spanish and Peruvian, with some French, Chinese and English pieces; one weighty armoire had to be craned in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“I don’t think she meant to do it, but she did,” said Annette Davis Bradley, owner of Downtown Envy, an antiques store a short walk from the Colleton County Courthouse where Hill presided.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

The court heard the accompanying paperwork had been typed using a typewriter on paper embossed with an antiques dealers' logo – and even a nine-pence stamp.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Sam Malloy had long had a theory of antiques.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Of course, the only caveat is watching the slick show in the antiqued DVD format.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Do you think it’s OK to have a low-key party to celebrate our child, or is this an antiqued ordeal that needs to go?

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2021

Designed by Stephen Rieman and Mark Krasne, the condo features antiqued mirrors, hand-stenciled doors and a wet bar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Create an Instagram moment with this pendant earring in antiqued gold with pearl-like insets.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2018

With glasses, and an unbelted Mother Hubbard gown made out of antiqued gold cloth, she might have passed for a habitué of the pseudo-artistic colony that made its headquarters not far away from her domicile.

From Apron-Strings by Eleanor Gates

Two years later, their love of thrifting, antiquing, bargaining and restoring has turned their Westwood rental into a showcase of “secondhand treasures,” says Van Hulsen, 28, who works as a commercial contract specialist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

Two lamps weren’t just two lamps, but the best outing she spent antiquing with my grandmother before she passed away from Alzheimer’s disease.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024

“We love to go to estate sales and antiquing together — it’s hard sometimes because we all like the same things!”

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023

At this year’s TromaDance, the Demmers sat in lawn chairs next to a newly renovated drive-in speaker that Mr. Demmer found and repaired while antiquing in Detroit.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021

Occasionally she disappears for the day, to go antiquing in the surrounding towns.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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