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museum piece

noun

Definition of museum piece

as in artifact

something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period that old wooden ironing board she uses is a museum piece

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Recent Examples of museum piece This is no museum piece at all — see this truly great film to be reminded of our lives today. — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026 Fantasia’s 30th anniversary celebration extends even deeper into genre history with a repertory slate that frames retro cinema as a living tradition rather than a museum piece. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026 Where a skipjack under sail was not a museum piece but a working vessel. — Serena C. McIlwain, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026 The conventional wisdom often treats Japanese management as a museum piece. — Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for museum piece

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Hands-on experiences dominate the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, where encountering artifacts that highlight aerospace history is on equal footing with learning about its future.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Its June 2026 Economic Index report also finds that AI use reflects the rhythms of work and produces concrete artifacts such as documents, explanations, code and reports through increasingly autonomous interfaces.

— Gleb Tsipursky, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of artifact

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With a rustic aesthetic, the cottage is charming and artsy, with antique finds from the owners' travels around the world.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
The enterprise continued in Bangkok, the home of Nino’s maternal grandparents, where the budding artist discovered a wealth of antiques and toothsome Thai fruits.

— Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of antique

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New York — Down a dim, crooked hallway inside the Jay Street Lofts, a hulking brick relic of Brooklyn’s industrial past, Naomi Mishkin is conducting a radical fashion experiment.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Few would bother to think about the two-state solution, viewing the idea as a relic from the overly optimistic 1990s.

— Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026

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