anachronistic

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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

It’s based on a novel written in the 1890s by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, and the adaptation’s transposition of time and place comes off as anachronistic and unconvincing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

There is, though, an anachronistic unreality to all of this.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 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

Thus they legitimize a profoundly anachronistic reading of the dispute between Hobbes and Boyle by placing their own view of that dispute into the mouth of Hobbes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton