atavism
Example Sentences
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His atavism came with the weekend’s most polish.
From Slate • May 30, 2023
In movies, food is rarely just food — it is a way of signaling obsession and atavism, consumption and desire.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2018
Enright understands adulthood as a kind of aberration that befalls families: siblings must grow up, but their maturity is oddly irrelevant to the atavism of the family unit.
From The New Yorker • May 18, 2015
We conclude that Ballard is quite unstimulated by human interaction – unless it takes the form of something inherently weird, like mob atavism or mass hysteria.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2012
As if it came from an atavism deeper than fear, I used to add “brother” silently to boys’ names.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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Evolutionary Biology - High School
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Challenge, List 7
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