How to Use atavism in a Sentence

atavism

noun

• What if the atavism under way isn’t just a miasma of unpleasantness but a buildup of gas waiting to combust?
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026
• Their success depends on a careful combination of atavism and innovation.
  — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
• Western elites believed that in the twenty-first century, cosmopolitanism and globalism would triumph over atavism and tribal loyalties.
  — Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017
• Karp’s ideological atavism is all too typical of the current bent of Silicon Valley.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• Such atavism couldn’t be further from Alexandre Estrela’s technological vision.
  — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 10 June 2026