artifact
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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
He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Yet “Scattered Steel,” like its subject, is a powerful artifact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The workplace at the center of “Dig” is an excavation site in Greece, where Poehler’s Elise is among a team of archaeologists that unearths a rare artifact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Every artifact was unique, meaning that only one copy of it existed in the entire simulation.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
Do ancient artifacts have a place as jewelry, or only in museums?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The National Museum alone lost almost two-thirds of its inventory, comprising nearly 100,000 artifacts that covered Sudan’s prehistoric age through its Nubian era, the Kingdom of Kush, the Christian era and its Islamic period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mission San Francisco de Potano was abandoned in 1706, and physical traces of the settlement gradually disappeared from view until artifacts began to turn up in the 1950s.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The rarest such items were artifacts, superpowerful magic items that gave their owners incredible abilities.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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