antediluvian

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But the script forces antediluvian clichés on some of the grown-up female characters.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2022

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

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 Woolson, Constance Fenimore