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throwback

noun as in legacy

noun as in regression

noun as in retrogradation

noun as in retrogression

noun as in reversion

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This browser is something of a throwback in terms of its appearance.

On the back, there's a throwback capacitive fingerprint reader—a contrast to the in-screen fingerprint readers most phones ship with—and a camera block.

Each of the eight episodes will focus on a specific paranormal incident, a throwback to a classic monster-of-the-week format.

This industrial lamp brings a throwback appeal to your bedroom—dimmable Edison bulb included.

Campus appears to be a throwback to the first days of Facebook, when a person had to have a college email address and attend a select group of universities to be able to join.

But Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.

That, I thought, was racism, and a throwback for America, to simply vote for a man because of the color of his skin.

Politically, Cianci is something of a throwback to a time when conservative, ethnic politics dominated urban centers.

What does Soylent have going for it other than missionary zeal and a revoltingly kitschy sci-fi throwback name?

For many of the young she is seen as a throwback to a past few want to see repeated.

You're sort of a throwback to the days when they needed barnstormers to correct bad working-conditions, aren't you?

The third dog of the team was Slasher, a gaunt, untamed malamute, red-eyed and vicious—a throwback to the wolf.

In face, figure, expression, and manner he was a five-hundred-year throwback to his Holland ancestors.

An atavistic throwback to primitive barbarism is more difficult for us who have twenty centuries behind us more than they have.

He was lighter—perhaps a throwback to some distant age when all sturgeon were white—and thus he was the easiest to see.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to throwback, such as: estate, gift, tradition, bequest, birthright, and devise.

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

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