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antediluvian

[an-tee-di-loo-vee-uhn] / ˌæn ti dɪˈlu vi ən /


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Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.

From Seattle Times Jun. 14, 2022

The view that Avery worked for decades to achieve a final blast of brilliance seems as antediluvian as the idea that he worked alone in a style that overpowered his wife’s work.

From New York Times May 12, 2022

So, $23.7 billion annually to renovate an antediluvian water system?

From Salon Nov. 26, 2021

Michael Pollan describes this as a kind of antediluvian experience, a return to paradise before science and technology pushed us “toward the objectification of nature and of all species other than our own.”

From Slate Sep. 21, 2021

Anything that happened last week seems to them old; last year, antediluvian.

From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson




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