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artifact

[ahr-tuh-fakt] / ˈɑr təˌfækt /






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And for posterity, his “Experimental Telephone” can be found at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American as an artifact of American enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

But they only want him as an AI chatbot or an artifact of banger memes; they don’t want to live in his reality.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

"At first we assumed it was a measurement artifact or some kind of interference," recalls Schultheiß.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

The arrival of the soapy “Scream 7” is a rare example of a 1990s cultural artifact that has survived, though its pulse is weakening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

What we do know is that aside from the thrill of discovery that the recovery of each artifact brought with it, the raising of the Mary Rose was an extraordinary adventure.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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