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Image The title seems an anachronism, from a time when paternalistic Americans, confident in their own flawed democracy, envisioned a world shaped in their own image.
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In times when digital reading is on the rise, a print magazine might be seen as both an anachronism and an ecological crime.
—Harper's Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
In a culture full of celebrities breathlessly competing for our attention, Harrison Ford feels not just like an anachronism but an aberration — the movie star who really, really doesn’t want to be there.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
By the 1960s, nationalism looked rather worse than an anachronism.
—Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2019
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In times when digital reading is on the rise, a print magazine might be seen as both an anachronism and an ecological crime.
—Harper's Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
In a culture full of celebrities breathlessly competing for our attention, Harrison Ford feels not just like an anachronism but an aberration — the movie star who really, really doesn’t want to be there.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
By the 1960s, nationalism looked rather worse than an anachronism.
—Jill Lepore, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anachronism
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Narrator Mary Lewis, raised in Newfoundland herself, delivers the book in a manner that seems stilted at first but grows more appealing as Lewis moves further into the story, with its pleasing archaisms and evocation of balked communication.—
Katherine A. Powers,
Washington Post,
21 Jan. 2020
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That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.—
A.O. SCOTT,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2018
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Unlike more popular South Pacific destinations like Bora Bora or Moorea, Rurutu is a welcome throwback to a more mellow paradise with strong ties to traditional Polynesian culture.—
Brianna Randall,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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For me, cheerleading, like beauty pageants, is a rather antiquated throwback.—
Greg Cote
June 22,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2025
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“Anachronism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anachronism. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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