anachronistic
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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
Black-cab drivers have to memorize London’s labyrinth of streets and pass a test known as “the Knowledge,” a feat sometimes seen as an anachronistic barrier to recruitment in the age of the sat-nav.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
But by the 1970s, as the canine rabies vaccine became widely available and increasingly mandatory, that scene and all its implications slipped toward the anachronistic.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 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
On January 4, 1993, this writer received an unusual letter, penned in a shaky, anachronistic script that suggested an elderly author.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
