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archaic

[ahr-key-ik] / ɑrˈkeɪ ɪk /


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Lawyers also dug up archaic legal tracts and 19th century dictionary entries defining the word “election.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Hanisee owns one of nearly 700 properties in Altadena that’s never had sewer lines, instead operating for decades on now-outdated septic tanks or even more archaic and environmentally hazardous cesspools.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Instead of needing to assume major contributions from an unknown archaic hominin population in Africa, the model shows how patterns in modern DNA could have emerged from structure within ancestral human populations themselves.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

In its benign use, Christendom is an archaic label for the Christians of the world.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

“He has a paper trail. I know, seems so archaic, right? It’s at the Columbia anthropology archive.”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older




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