Stone Age

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Adjective
  • As a result, the timeline for Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis — archaic humans who disappeared from Europe and Central Asia around 40,000 years ago and are known to have lived alongside the Denisovans — has also been shifted.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • As One of Us gleefully samples multiple registers—comic, tragic, satiric, elegiac, poetic—its mesh of archaic and contemporary styles becomes something quite arresting, a joy to read … Chaon’s beautiful novel insists on answers.
    Book Marks September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Navy said Dry Dock 3 lacks the size and floor strength to support Virginia-class submarines and will become functionally obsolete as older Los Angeles-class attack submarines retire.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The Bears currently play at the obsolete Soldier Field, which was last renovated more than 20 years ago.
    Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bettany played English poet and writer Geoffrey Chaucer in the medieval action-comedy, which starred Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, who forges a new identity for himself as a knight when his master dies.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The movie was set in medieval times, and blended action, comedy and modern pop culture.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the solid axles also pair with the steering to produce the most antiquated element of an Ineos—either the SUV or truck.
    Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At Dilara Findikoglu, models looked like ladies in waiting that had risen from the dead; wearing antiquated corsetry that was dirtied and torn.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The piece was enough to identify the prehistoric animal as a species of pterosaur, flying reptiles that ranged in size from modern-day birds to small airplanes.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The titular robotic dinosaurs are machines piloted by humans who, in the new series, must defend Earth from a monstrous alien invasion trying to resurrect its prehistoric army.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Bersten, meanwhile, dated model Alexis Ren, whom he was paired with in season 27 of DWTS.
    Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Glee is aggressively rewatchable — a series that is somehow poignant, brilliantly campy, and hilarious while also being so dated that it should never be made again.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested and charged with capital murder.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That Tamra and Gretchen are both doing the same thing, trafficking in old rumors and nastiness not about the husband, as Meredith Marks would say, but about each other.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
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