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

Despite his Gen Z status, he notably lacks the “smartphone face” that’s rampant among pop artists and celebrities — and is partial to dressing in an anachronistic way, which he pulls off with gusto.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 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

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