Other Words from ahistorical

ahistorically \ ˌā-hi-ˈstȯr-i-k(ə-)lē

, -ˈstär- \ adverb

ahistoricism \ ˌā-hi-ˈstȯr-ə-ˌsi-zəm

, -ˈstär- \ noun

ahistoricity \ ˌā-ˌhi-stə-ˈri-sə-tē

\ noun

Examples of ahistorical in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Putin also openly stated his revanchist, imperialist goals, declaring that Ukraine was not a real country and making the ahistorical suggestion that it should be subsumed back into mother Russia. — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 29 June 2022 Herzog’s Onoda is not an ahistorical lunatic, but rather a man with admirable focus who clings to life and refuses to cede a fight. — Kristen Millares Young, Washington Post, 16 June 2022 Kinzinger was reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s ahistorical speech to the Knesset. — David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022 It’s not only ahistorical but untrue to the present-day discriminations that nonwhites and non-Christians face in France—untrue to their struggle, collective and individual, to be recognized, accepted, and treated as undeniably and equally French. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022 Other Presidents are more indifferent to history, and the last Oval Office occupant in particular seems to have adopted a fiercely ahistorical posture. — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Apr. 2022 Yet overlooking the moguls’ story is troublingly ahistorical, say scholars. — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2022 Putin’s ahistorical justifications of the invasion doesn’t surprise the scholar. — Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2022 Putin is not the only world leader who has harkened back to an ahistorical past to justify his decisions in the present. — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022 See More

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