archaic
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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owns one of nearly 700 properties in Altadena that’s never had sewer lines, instead operating for decades on now-outdated septic tanks or even more archaic and environmentally hazardous cesspools.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
What’s going on with the obsession with reviving archaic occupations, like learning from artisans fixing old shoes?
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026
Like Karen Barwick though, he questions the need to string them up calling it "archaic".
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The nizam’s court, with its sumptuous palaces, its concubines, its rituals and recitations of poetry and music, was the chief inheritor of the archaic grandeur of the moguls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens probably also had a hard time talking behind each other’s backs—a much maligned ability which is in fact essential for cooperation in large numbers.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing archaic
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Play by the Rules: Arch
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Grade 9, List 2
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