anachronism
Example Sentences
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It all came from this font of beauty pageants, and it feels more like the anachronism is not the beauty pageants, it's our perception of what happens in them.
From Salon
The fact is - according to journalist Amaury Coutansais, author of Macron's African Trap - that France is living through a "historical anachronism", in which it is attributed powers that simply do not exist any more.
From BBC
But no matter how and which way people believe the status discussion should be decided, there is an overall acknowledgment that colonialism is an anachronism — that territorial status should be modernized.
From New York Times
Dismissed in the mid-1960s as an embarrassing anachronism, he bobs and weaves in his own way as well as Ali.
From Los Angeles Times
I imagine he must have struck a writer like Updike as a walking anachronism, a coelacanth-like living fossil from the high modernist age.
From Los Angeles Times
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