antediluvian
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Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most antediluvian.
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2022
Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022
So, $23.7 billion annually to renovate an antediluvian water system?
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2021
Michael Pollan describes this as a kind of antediluvian experience, a return to paradise before science and technology pushed us “toward the objectification of nature and of all species other than our own.”
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2021
“Oh! if Ja-bol-he-moth,” he suddenly exclaimed with a fierce earnestness, “if Ja-bol-he-moth and other great antediluvian giants could only escape from their imprisonment, we would soon transform the whole earth to our liking.”
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
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