throwback
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With his elevated speech, tony air and throwback attire, he’s like someone from another era; you could see him as one of Jay Gatsby’s pals or a bon vivant who drops by on “Downton Abbey.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Michigan Mike Rogers is a bit of a throwback to the pre-Trump GOP: a buttoned-up, country-club Republican from the George W. Bush era.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
These throwback parties take place from 6 to 10 p.m. and are immensely popular with older millennials and Gen Xers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In that sense, it is a throwback to the old road courses that used to predominate on the calendar.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Democritus, who further developed his master’s atomist theories, also had his own pet cosmology, including a Thalian throwback to a flat-disk earth, floating in air.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
The increased interest in throwbacks is not a death-knell for new music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Or the yellow Formica kitchen, with its Pyrex hot plate, wall-mounted radio, original Eames barstools and drop-leaf dining table still intact — all charming throwbacks to a simpler time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
Her paintings contain visual throwbacks to the gilding and draperies of Renaissance paintings, yet also represent stars from films and pop culture.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
And it would be easy to assume the rise in musical throwbacks is simply down to young people rediscovering older music online.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
There might be temperamental as well as physical "throwbacks."
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
