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

But it also lends the movie an anachronistic feel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 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