relic
Example Sentences
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The without even features a pilgrimage to Topanga Tower, the mysterious cold-war relic in the Santa Monica mountains.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
What a relic, which wasn’t intended to manage a trade deficit per se.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 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
“Friday” has become a relic of pop, virality and how we once used the internet.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
The trek between Kabul and Jalalabad, a bone-jarring ride down a teetering pass snaking through the rocks, had become a relic now, a relic of two wars.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.