archaic
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Director Prosit Roy, who is father to a toddler daughter, describes himself as "a girl dad" and says he made the film to challenge "old ideas and archaic values".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
It felt like there was something arch, ironic and archaic even for its own era.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
And this is not some archaic cinderblock and mortar contraption: It’s a top-of-the-line, high-tech fabrication.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025
The rebuilt face looks more archaic than many scientists expected, offering fresh clues about one of the first human species to expand across Africa and Eurasia.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
An archaic sociologist living 20,000 years ago, who had no knowledge of events following the Agricultural Revolution, might well have concluded that mythology had a fairly limited scope.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing archaic
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Grade 9, List 2
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