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as in artifact
a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished
a crude stone ax and other relics of the Neanderthals
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as in dinosaur
one that has passed the peak of effectiveness or popularity
his courtly manners marked him as a relic of a more refined and formal era
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Recent Examples of relic
The government charged them all with being associated with a group that advocated the doctrines of world Communism, a justification for deportation dating back to the McCarran-Walter Act, of 1952, a Cold War relic.
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David Cole, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2025
Continue reading … -- IN OTHER NEWS ON THE HUNT – Where travelers are flocking to find ancient relics and pricey gemstones.
—Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
The influence of the Scholes & Glidden is evident to this day, and many of the readers of this article have a relic from technological antiquity right in front of them.
—Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut marks.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
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David Cole, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2025
Continue reading … -- IN OTHER NEWS ON THE HUNT – Where travelers are flocking to find ancient relics and pricey gemstones.
—Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
The influence of the Scholes & Glidden is evident to this day, and many of the readers of this article have a relic from technological antiquity right in front of them.
—Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025
Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut marks.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relic
Noun
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The cabinet of curiosities in the background contains strange artifacts, including the Bloodstone prop from Werewolf by Night, the Marvel TV special Giacchino directed for Disney+.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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This portfolio is, like a memory of a night in a Broadway house, an artifact of a moment.—
Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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However, these small gains are undermined by plummeting profitability across most of the art and antiques market, as prices for virtually all aspects of the business, from shipping to rent, have increased.—
Kabir Jhala,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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That can include antiques, family heirlooms, or special mementos.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Apr. 2025
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Among them are the woolly mammoth, that Colossal has already announced plans to revive, and even dinosaurs, which the startup has not yet commented on, despite speculation.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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In addition to dragons, Universal is bringing dinosaurs to the format.—
Carolyn Giardina,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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This is how breaks with reality occur now, aided, in part, by the internet’s justification machine, which is an efficient mechanism for dispelling any trace of cognitive dissonance.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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Strategist, Neil Richardson, suggests that our digital shadows, the sum total of our online expressions and biometric traces, may soon outlive us, creating some kind of posthumous identity that transcends mortality.—
Tracey Follows,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Her being nominated for playing a grotesque has-been is, at the very least, a delicious irony.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t a turn of events that Macchio, 63, possibly could have expected just a few years ago, when most of Hollywood had dismissed him as an Eighties has-been.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
12 Feb. 2025
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White dwarfs, conversely, are the cosmic corpses of smaller stars with masses more in line with that of the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Harry helps his maid, Bella gets blackmailed, and Archie's corpse resurfaces.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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In the cave site on northern Malta, scientists found trace remnants of the roasted carcasses of red deer, tortoises and birds, as well as the remains of the marine life that once swarmed around Malta.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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The daring skunk drags chunks of the carcass one by one into the log for safekeeping, the video shows.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2025
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In August 2024, a Sri Lanka vessel that fished in the Saya de Malha between March and June 2024 was detained by Sri Lankan authorities with over half a ton of oceanic white-tip shark carcasses aboard, all with their fins removed.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Relic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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