anachronistic
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Most agree that the zeitgeist of rap started to shift away from the stubbornly anachronistic rapper sometime around the end of the aughts.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Researcher Tiger Shankman has hailed its “perky, anachronistic beauty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Kill supply management," Calgary journalist and writer Jen Gerson argued in a column, external published this month before Trump's latest tariff threats, calling it "anachronistic" and blaming it for driving up food prices in Canada.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“One wrong face, one wrong soul, one anachronistic person, and you’re done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Though now considered anachronistic, in the late nineteenth century the chair was thought to be a bold and humane innovation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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