anachronistic

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The historically anachronistic animated epic introduces its neanderthal champion, Spear, and his partner, a female Tyrannosaurus named Fang, as they find common cause in grief.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

Her critical “confidence . . . is thrillingly anachronistic: obstinate, sure, but warming, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

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

It said the current system requiring approval from two doctors was "anachronistic, paternalistic and failed to reflect best modern practice".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton