artifacts

noun

plural of artifact
1
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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2
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 Security teams should prioritize execution paths where code can access secrets, create persistence or make system changes, then apply pre-execution controls that can stop or constrain artifacts when their behavior falls outside policy. — Ken Ammon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 The station, which opened in December 2025, contains a multi-floor underground museum showcasing artifacts unearthed during years of construction work on a new metro line. — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026 The book benefits from an array of documents, artifacts and writings left behind by Powell in three storage units, one of which contained about 1,000 pairs of shoes, which Bantom eventually donated for charity. — Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026 The premises is also set to exhibit thousands of objects sourced from the Powerhouse Collection, a massive national archive of artifacts. — News Desk, Artforum, 28 Aug. 2026 Each of the six stops offers a different experience where visitors can experience their music, along with virtual stories, artifacts, and multimedia displays. — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2026 The judge ordered the company to file an inventory of the 5,500 artifacts, including when and where each item was salvaged, its current location, and its condition. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 The discovery comes over a decade after researchers first examined the artifacts. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Aug. 2026 The artifacts included eight deformed sickles, one intact sickle, part of a sword blade, ornament fragments, three ingots and two unfinished objects. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for artifacts
  1. fossils
  2. mementos
  3. relics
  4. reminders
  5. echoes
  6. remembrances
  7. remnants
  8. corpses
Noun
  • Beyond art, Griffin has also been a major buyer of important documents and prehistoric fossils.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Neanderthals and Denisovans left behind fossils — from which scientists could extract DNA — as well as identifiable traces in human genes.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of fossils
Noun
  • The star has become a makeshift memorial in the days since Parton’s death, where fans have placed flowers, photos, candles, and other mementos.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026
  • After months of waiting, families are finally getting back personal mementos from the former Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of mementos
Noun
  • Ospreay walked through relics from the past and present backstage, including Michael Oku, Swerve Strickland, Ricochet, Kyle Fletcher, his wife Alex Windsor and finally Jon Moxley, who gave Ospreay the flag of London.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Simonian is believed to have smuggled Egyptian relics to institutions that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective sum of $64 million.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of relics
Noun
  • Use notification reminders to receive alerts when the robot starts or completes a task, or when an error occurs.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Many of these recipes will be reminders of recipes served after long summer days at the beach or the lake.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of reminders
Noun
  • For some supporters, there were alarming echoes of last year’s Hugo Ekitike ‘hijacking’.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig, who has a comprehensive grasp of financial history and a deft touch for illuminating it, explores the echoes here.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of echoes
Noun
  • Flowers, handwritten remembrances and other tributes have been piling up at de facto Dolly Parton memorial sites around the Nashville area.
    — The NPR Network, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Styles’ tribute to Parton is one of the innumerable remembrances across the globe following her death after a brief battle with cancer at 80.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of remembrances
Noun
  • Dolly's remnants also bringing rain Elsewhere, the hurricane center is keeping an eye on whether the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly could develop again.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • This handout image released by the Grand Canyon National Park Service via X (formerly Twitter) on August 30, 2026 shows remnants of stone bridge pylons along Bright Angel Creek following a flash flood that destroyed the footbridge on August 29.
    — Trevor Ault, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of remnants
Noun
  • Homecoming aside, there’s still the Trawler to worry about, a fact we’re reminded of when another victim turns up on a playground, this time with a pentagram carved into his back and fish corpses shoved into his wounds.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • This is not the first time that objects – and even corpses – have been uncovered due to melting ice.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
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“Artifacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artifacts. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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