anachronism

Example Sentences

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The Court held that the formula was an anachronism from the Jim Crow era and didn’t account for racial progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

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 • Jul. 26, 2025

Some people do not get the Lions and call it an anachronism and an unimportant exhibition.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

The notion of a TV schedule where viewers are compelled to make an appointment to watch shows has almost become an anachronism in the age of streaming video on demand.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

To impose an anachronism: desegregation simply did not compute.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson