anachronistic
Example Sentences
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“One wrong face, one wrong soul, one anachronistic person, and you’re done.”
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
Despite his Gen Z status, he notably lacks the “smartphone face” that’s rampant among pop artists and celebrities — and is partial to dressing in an anachronistic way, which he pulls off with gusto.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Today, these spaces can feel strangely anachronistic - relics of a bygone era in a country eager to shed its colonial past.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
Though now considered anachronistic, in the late nineteenth century the chair was thought to be a bold and humane innovation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
