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anachronism

[uh-nak-ruh-niz-uhm] / əˈnæk rəˌnɪz əm /


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The current requirement that lenders use three credit scores—known as tri-merge—is an anachronism and adds unnecessary costs to borrowers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, said the current police funding formula was "an anachronism".

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024

In an increasingly digital United States, they’re more and more a remnant of a time gone by, an anachronism of a now-unfathomable era when leaving your house meant being unavailable to callers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Failure to tear away that veil had turned my father into an anachronism.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane