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antique

[an-teek] / ænˈtik /




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Kurt Sawitskas has already spent weeks analyzing the carousel’s innards, marveling at its antique nature, but also being amazed that it’s still mostly intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

He’s just gotten into the art world with a $35,000 antique vase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"And source things from online marketplaces or antique markets for unique pieces that tell a story and make a space feel more lived-in and curated over time."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Likho, a one-eyed, Russian blue cat with a loyal following, celebrated his 15th birthday at a Long Beach antique store with a carnival-themed party.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Someday, people will be buying these in antique shops, and they’ll have tiny computers that they carry around with them”—which I think he probably meant as a joke, except he didn’t laugh.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Eventually, with the help of a former colleague in Tokyo who’s become an antiques importer in Washington state, Rika flees her husband and relocates with Naomi, under a new name, to Seattle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Burrell’s family said in the statement announcing the antiques enthusiast’s death that the cancer community provided “so much comfort and strength to her in her darkest moments.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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

“I found them in a jewelry box in an antiques shop in Paris, years ago,” Isobel says.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

In another project, he considered mounting antiqued mirror on the ceiling, but when the budget wouldn’t allow it, he used a shiny Cole & Son wallcovering called Antique Mirror to achieve a similar effect.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

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

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

On the agenda for Bowen’s perfect Sunday are hiking, antiquing and a stop at Joan’s on Third.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024

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

“My houses have always been my creative, shopping and antiquing outlets — they just combine everything I like to do,” she explains.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021

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

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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