throwback

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That's also the theme of their new album, The Core, where the band ditch the throwback R&B of their first EPs for a more expansive sound.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

When she wakes one day on her Yesteryear Ranch seemingly in 1855 without electricity, modern medicine or her team of nannies, her throwback lifestyle gets all too real.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The brand is back together for “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” which is a movie, a hoped-for franchise revival, a fourth season of sorts and an affable throwback.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Massie is a throwback libertarian who, in lieu of the standard lawmaker flag pin, wears on his lapel a national debt clock that he programmed himself.

From Slate • May 19, 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