anachronism
Example Sentences
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Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times has dismissed it as “a silly anachronism.”
From Salon
The Court held that the formula was an anachronism from the Jim Crow era and didn’t account for racial progress.
Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
From Salon
Some people do not get the Lions and call it an anachronism and an unimportant exhibition.
From BBC
Andy Cooke, chief inspector of constabulary, said the current police funding formula was "an anachronism".
From BBC
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