anachronistic
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"Some officials in the United States still have yet to awaken from their escapist and anachronistic dream," she said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
Taix has that particular anachronistic vibe that made L.A. so charming when I moved here in 1992, one of these places that time forgot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
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
“One wrong face, one wrong soul, one anachronistic person, and you’re done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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
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