archaic

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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

True, some of the younger doctors found the ritual archaic, but to Rustin scrubbing was more than a matter of hygiene—it established the mood and rhythm of the whole operation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Even if a particularly fertile valley could feed 500 archaic Sapiens, there was no way that so many strangers could live together.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari