archaic
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Hanisee owns one of nearly 700 properties in Altadena that’s never had sewer lines, instead operating for decades on now-outdated septic tanks or even more archaic and environmentally hazardous cesspools.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
It operates under archaic authorities, lacking the necessary capacity and accountability to respond to additional geopolitical challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Instead of needing to assume major contributions from an unknown archaic hominin population in Africa, the model shows how patterns in modern DNA could have emerged from structure within ancestral human populations themselves.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026
The National League suffers from an archaic quirk within the upper echelons of the football pyramid, with only its champions going straight up.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
A master luthier, Illien transformed the archaic, fragile, unwieldy court lute into the marvelous, versatile, seven-string trouper’s lute we use today.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing archaic
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Grade 9, List 2
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