archaic

They aren’t waiting around for the archaic U.S. power grid to catch up.

Some of Mr. Fatsis’ new colleagues observed that the very notion of authoritative repositories of information had come to seem archaic; now “expertise was ceasing to matter” and “institutions were growing suspect.”

Today, dropped into phone calls, Zoom squares and social-media feeds, our brains feel, as Mr. Rein puts it, “out of place, an archaic tool,” like “a horse-drawn carriage on the autobahn.”

How much of the archaic lingo below can you decipher?

Charities have long claimed the method of council tax debt enforcement in England punishes people who are genuinely struggling to pay - while the government says it is taking action against "archaic and aggressive" practices.