artifact
Example Sentences
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By including this artifact of his digital process, Gomez acknowledges that the painting’s subject is not reality as experienced on the streets of the city, but a constructed proposition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
"Neither was the case: Paranthropus was as widespread and versatile as Homo and the new find shows that its absence in the Afar was an artifact of the fossil record."
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
At 29 minutes, the film is pure pleasure, not to mention an essential artifact of American musical history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Over time, the journal becomes more than notes: it’s a map of your palate and a small artifact of your growth in the kitchen.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
Meaning that grappling with her was like grappling with an Aztec-Navajo artifact museum: in Shorty’s embrace, Sabrina rattled like a hundred ghosts of Christmas Past.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.