anachronistic
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Taix has that particular anachronistic vibe that made L.A. so charming when I moved here in 1992, one of these places that time forgot.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
One of the most important ways to do that is to loosen the anachronistic barriers that unduly inhibit bank innovation, especially when it comes to technological transformations like stablecoins.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
Black-cab drivers have to memorize London’s labyrinth of streets and pass a test known as “the Knowledge,” a feat sometimes seen as an anachronistic barrier to recruitment in the age of the sat-nav.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Today, these spaces can feel strangely anachronistic - relics of a bygone era in a country eager to shed its colonial past.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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