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Definition of ahistorical
: not concerned with or related to history, historical development, or tradition an ahistorical attitude; also : historically inaccurate or ignorant an ahistorical version of events
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Down NOLA was birthed out of a recognition that the Confederate statues were the physical manifestation of an ahistorical worldview, one which valorized and apologized for the very champions of slavery.
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There was, throughout the evening, an odd sense of ahistorical detachment from the issues that challenge France, and the new President.
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On the electric Twitter machine, historian Kevin Kruse has been manning the barricades against the ever-changing barrage of ahistorical offal that McConnell has been tossing around.
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One also wonders if the more ahistorical dance-music fans wouldn’t quickly become more historical, and more Detroit-minded, if the festival were to produce some visible extra layers of content — publications, documentaries, panel discussions.
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Unfortunately, this crisis is ahistorical (a black swan).
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First Known Use of ahistorical
1911
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