artifact
an object made by humans, typically one of cultural or historical interest
Word origin: From Latin arte factum, made by skill (ars art plus facere to make).
Artifact in a sentence
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The museum displayed an artifact from the ancient civilization that was over three thousand years old.
Each artifact recovered from the dig was cataloged before being sent to the conservation lab.
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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “artifact” well
Artifact names a human-made object, especially one of historical or cultural value. In scientific contexts it can also mean a distortion introduced by the method of observation, not the thing itself.
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