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noun

artifact

CEFR C2

a man-made object taken as a whole

In a sentence

Six example sentences with artifact, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every artifact in the case was made by hand: a bronze razor, a clay lamp, and two carved gaming pieces.

    History

  • The sculptor treats a rusted hinge as an artifact worth framing, arguing that human hands shaped every curve of it.

    Art

  • She photographs each artifact against gray paper, so the shape of the tool rather than the table holds your eye.

    Photography

  • The museum lets visitors hold one artifact, a bronze coin, so the past stops being something behind glass.

    Travel

  • Archaeologists date each artifact by the soil layer it sits in, since a pot cannot be younger than the earth above it.

    Science

  • Philosophers ask when an artifact stops being itself, if a ship has every plank replaced over a century.

    Philosophy

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