relic
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It feels like a relic from a bygone age of simplicity: an entire season of reality TV hinging on the social lives of a group of unpolished teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The province is dotted with old Catholic churches—a relic of a time when public institutions like schools and hospitals were under full control of the clergy.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
The naval gathering was itself a relic of an earlier age, when rival militaries could coexist in the security of a global order that gave priority to stability above all else.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
The Kuiper Belt itself is a relic of the early Milky Way, when the galaxy existed as a rotating disc of gas and dust.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
Jefferson had thought that France was the wave of the future and England was a relic of the past.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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