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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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There’s also a collection of original costumes, weapons, props and production artifacts from across Villeneuve’s trilogy, including a full-scale ornithopter used in the films.

— Anna Tingley, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Given that this uplift comes from the algorithm not weighing GPU performance as heavily, the underlying native frame rate should be higher, reducing the more typical artifacts of frame generation.

— Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of artifact

Noun

What to do nearby A stone’s throw away is the Water Street Market, a complex of shops that includes an antiques mall, the Grazery café, and a neighborhood tavern called Parish.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
Sang-woo’s grandfather had been a businessman and a police officer under the Japanese colonial government, before the Second World War; books and antiques from that period line every surface.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of antique

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Theranos is, in many ways, a cautionary tale and a relic of 2010s Silicon Valley.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
Our leaders should retire a relic that endangers people and animals alike, and retire, once and for all, the small and nasty politics used to defend it.

— Al Sharpton, New York Daily News, 14 Oct. 2026

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