archaic

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What’s going on with the obsession with reviving archaic occupations, like learning from artisans fixing old shoes?

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

It felt like there was something arch, ironic and archaic even for its own era.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Treasuries market, and archaic laws that require mailed paper notices.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

In parallel, brain organoids containing either modern or archaic NOVA1 genes were used to study how lead affected brain development, with particular attention to FOXP2, a gene central to language.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

Perhaps we have inherited only vestiges of the organs needed, only antique and archaic traces of the fragrance, and the memory may be forever gone.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas