You conclude (somehow) that this artifact is a "design", by which you mean it displays "purpose".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

A surviving artifact from the old temples of America!.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lights Go Out « A Fly in Amber] Reference

Every artifact is a potential object of study: a text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

In this way, the artifact is mapped out little by little.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys] Reference

Right now the Skylab artifact is nearing a point of no return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save Skylab! » Fanboy.com] Reference

An artifact from the vanished civilization of the Summer of Love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Baen's Top 10 Science Fiction Books] Reference

Five years after 9/11, the day's most famous artifact is still missing.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Mystery drapes flag's disappearance] Reference

The history of an American family, in artifact form, right in my basement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleaning House] Reference

The mysterious artifact is finally excavated at the Aegis VII mining colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Image Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference

If an artifact is the product of physical necessity it is not evidence of foresight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

The artifact is a set of papers left by Susan White back in 1959 on a alternate Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds] Reference

It turns out that the comrade stole an artifact from the city and wishes to restore it.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Secret of Sinharat and People of the Talisman by Leigh Brackett] Reference

UPDATE: Not endorsing the contents, just passing along this artifact from the Obamaverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debate Mysteries - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

A monumental literary artifact from the "wonder pulps" era, quite enjoyable even to this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultra-Rare Serials from "Fantasy Magazine"] Reference

Over at Future Now, my colleague Alex Pang comments on this artifact from the history of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [- Boing Boing] Reference

A mysterious, alien artifact is found on the Moon and discovered to be deadly to anyone who enters it.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys] Reference

An alien artifact is discovered. it leads to another artifact, which contains gateways to other worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Shores -- Jack McDevitt] Reference

This is an artifact from the original series, the one thing that should have been eliminated immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

In Parque La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco, rests an artifact from the Olmecs, who flourished some 3,500 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbus Day in America] Reference

The Monks DVD -- The Transatlantic Feedback -- is an excellent artifact from the German production company, playloud!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference

The artifact was a rusty-brown color, but it didn't look quite like metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

Her artifact is a broom known as Gunner’s Broom, which acts as a cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night Wizard – The Animation « Undercover] Reference

(The "Enlarge" button doesn't work; it's an artifact from the Ford website.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 2004] Reference

The device can be exploded if the government decides the artifact is a danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Or, rather a chapbook that contained my work because clearly the artifact was your brainchild.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Dewinitz: Conversation ending with a poem] Reference

I'm calling artifact-hijinx already, mind, but I am very amused by the concept of an "empty zone.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretty, Fizzy Paradise] Reference

They suggest that the two aspects are ˜tied up™, so to speak, in the notion of artifact function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of Technology] Reference

This commercial for the Mickey Mouse talking phone certainly ranks as a snarkworthy artifact from the ’80s.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 September : Scrubbles.net] Reference

Weighing about two kilograms, the artifact is a part of a bas-relief depicting the hair of an Achaemenid soldier.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

To win Trick of the Light I would say the artifact is a beautiful amethyst shaped as a circle on a silver serpent staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Summer Heat giveaway] Reference

Drifting within and dwarfed by the bulk of the artifact was a ship not much larger than the one which had brought Ashili.    From Wordnik.com.  [Codgerspace]

Are you saying that we've found some kind of artifact?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

"Then you are saying that you've found some kind of artifact, Boston.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

You are conflating a record of a behavior with the result of a behavior (the "artifact").    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

He might have "artifact," the body he wore as another dressed himself with out of thin air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step into Chaos]

Korkal wondered what, exactly, was that "artifact" Outsider said he used to appear before them as a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step into Chaos]

I feel The Silmarillion is more compelling as a kind of literary "artifact" than The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa)] Reference

The damage incurred by the "artifact" during its shipment to the Royal Ontario Museum in November 2002 is clearly visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ossuary Dethroned] Reference