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retro

adjective as in from yesteryear

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In other words, the computing hardware reads retro game-cartridge instructions.

As calls for climate action get louder and the costs associated with airships drop—as the cost of any new technology tends to do with time—we may find ourselves going retro and being ferried across the globe by giant helium-filled balloons.

Ortiz said so many rows in retro-parks have resulted in a lower rise, pushing back the main concourse and upper decks and drawing fans away from the action.

When fans are permitted to enter, they will find many seats closer to the field than they are in retro parks — and certainly closer than they were in the Rangers’ previous home.

The first row of the upper deck at Globe Life Field is nearly 30 feet closer to the playing surface than the Rangers’ previous, retro-era home, according to an overlay of their profiles.

“I was delighted to collaborate,” he said in the interview with Retro Report.

Familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium.

It’s arguably the best film of the ‘90s—a postmodern pop culture smorgasbord awash in nihilism and dripping with retro cool.

[Laughs] He thought it was some retro-recreation or something.

Why did you feel the need to spice it up with retro tuneage?

Further to the east, as we shall find in due course, may be seen the low vaulted retro-choir or ambulatory of one bay.

East of the retro-choir is the exterior of a staircase leading from the north choir aisle to the clerestory parapet.

A stone on the floor of the retro-choir to John Johnson, master and mariner, dated 1737, is crowded with nautical metaphor.

Sicque duorum solus uictor existens, Danis irrogatam multis retro temporibus infamiam gloriosa uirtute magnifice satis aboleuit.

Of course, ground control was to be used only if the astronaut failed to ignite the retro-rockets himself.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to retro, such as: period, dated, evocative, in period style, nostalgic, and old-fashioned.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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