archaic

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“That list is 30 years old, and it’s not based on good science. It’s archaic science,” he said at a recent event in Harrisburg, Pa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

And this is not some archaic cinderblock and mortar contraption: It’s a top-of-the-line, high-tech fabrication.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

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