anachronism

Example Sentences

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But no matter how and which way people believe the status discussion should be decided, there is an overall acknowledgment that colonialism is an anachronism — that territorial status should be modernized.

From New York Times

Dismissed in the mid-1960s as an embarrassing anachronism, he bobs and weaves in his own way as well as Ali.

From Los Angeles Times

I imagine he must have struck a writer like Updike as a walking anachronism, a coelacanth-like living fossil from the high modernist age.

From Los Angeles Times

As Shapiro adjusted settings on a rose engine on a recent weekday, it drove home a point: This was a decidedly old-fashioned endeavor, applying centuries-old techniques to craft a wristwatch — itself something of an anachronism.

From Los Angeles Times

But tomorrow’s rituals will be a reminder that, in a secular, multiethnic, digital-age society, the crown is fundamentally an anachronism.

From New York Times