Thesaurus results for ARTIFACTS

artifacts

noun

plural of artifact

as in fossils

an object made by humans and surviving from an earlier time period The site was full of Stone Age artifacts such as flint tools.

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as in mementos

a lingering indication of something from the past The spelling of "trough" is an artifact of the way it was originally pronounced.

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Recent Examples of artifacts Ship models, ancient navigation instruments, maps, and shipwreck artifacts illustrate the skills and dangers involved in these journeys. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 People have the ability to share specific Muse artifacts, which creates a page that can be accessed by those with the link. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026 Related Articles Among the objects ensnared in the proceedings are roughly 30 Indigenous artifacts, including baskets, moccasins, textiles, and bone carvings. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Some artifacts found on the island indicate Earhart and Noonan’s plane may have landed there, including glass bottles from the 1930s and a woman’s makeup compact, the expedition said. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 Among those artifacts was a Nudie suit given to Lennon by his pal Harry Nilsson. — Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 The discoveries will undergo further study, though officials did not report finding any artifacts conclusively linked to Earhart's missing aircraft. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 System hosted an exhibition dubbed Beyond the Streets last week in Los Angeles, featuring artifacts and other memorabilia from the era. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026 Adding fuel to the debate is the discovery of ancient artifacts — texts, frescoes, tombstone inscriptions — that seem, to some, to depict women as priests in the early Catholic Church. — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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Noun

To do this, the team of researchers used fossils and knowledge of mosasaurs' most recent living relatives – snakes and lizards like the komodo dragon – to recreate the hunting behavior of mosasaurs.

— October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
The discovery provides a detailed view into how the dinosaur’s body responded to injury before its death and demonstrates how neutron imaging can reveal soft tissues that are rarely preserved in fossils.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

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For some time, Ming’s cruiser sat outside the Wyandotte County Courthouse, where it was adorned with flowers and other mementos.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Travel mementos in a private home A pocket museum doesn’t have to be open to the public.

— Dina Cheney, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of mementos

Noun

Among the relics of its decline is a hulking complex of rusted pipes, towers and conveyor belts in Delano, just five miles north of the McFarland chipping yard.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
The landscape flowed in ridges and mountains of faded yellow and whisper pink, where welwitschia–large, low-lying plants that live to be hundreds of years old–sprawled like relics from a Dune film set.

— Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of relics

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Just add more alcohol and more reminders of these couples’ experiential chasm, and Lee’s command of irony in a simmering atmosphere is in a league all its own.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The idea is to let an assistant check connected accounts for tasks such as unpaid invoices and draft reminders without waiting for a prompt, so users spend less time figuring out what to ask for.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of reminders

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The coastal flooding in the next few days is expected to be different from earlier rounds, which were heavily influenced by powerful swells from the remnants of hurricanes Marie and Rachel.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Coastal communities in Southern California began to experience dangerous conditions over Labor Day weekend with the remnants of Hurricane Marie.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of remnants

Noun

In that out-of-use cooler, two living roaches rather ghoulishly hung around the 17 roach corpses.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
The sheer number of corpses meant that traditional burial ceremonies were forgotten for a time, and mass unmarked grave sites were used outside the city walls.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

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