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Adjective
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In one corner of the café, there’s a parking spot exclusively for broomsticks; upstairs in the games room, a smoke-breathing dragon perches over a medieval-style fireplace.—
Zoey Goto,
Vogue,
19 June 2026 -
Among the finds are a 4th-century coin bearing the face of Emperor Constantine, as well as medieval pottery fragments bearing markings archaeologists have not yet deciphered.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2026
Adjective
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The sixth block in the Parthenon’s tympanum—or recessed space—was restored by combining a pair of archaic fragments with new pieces of marble, while the seventh block has been completed using only fresh marble.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 June 2026
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His department of justice brought back the firing squad on federal row in April of 2026; several states now also use what was once considered an archaic method.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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Their outmoded style, with its seriousness and corniness, its big acting choices and low budgets, is basically impossible to recreate without falling into parody.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Embossed business cards, account ledgers, bins of bolts at the hardware store—all are pleasurable physical artifacts that have been more or less outmoded by technology.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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The modern Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar system replaced the aircraft’s antiquated radar.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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Farms open up between the forestry, and the antiquated Martindale Chief Diner hangs on a curb.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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The brilliance of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium across north London has only made Arsenal’s home look more dated.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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Click here for dated and tickets.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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Preckwinkle's team first tackled the out-of-date property tax system by hiring Tyler Technologies under a $30 million dollar contract to upgrade the county's property tax system.—
Chris Tye,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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Charles also had one out-of-date license to operate a school bus at the time of the incident, investigators stated previously.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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If unethical actors can deploy custom frontier AI models to aggressively interrogate smart contracts and find hidden protocol flaws, human-only defensive audits will be rendered obsolete.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Now, new clean technology, known as direct reduction, is fast replacing the old, obsolete blast furnaces that have been polluting our community for more than 100 years.—
Lori Latham,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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It was given a $31 million overhaul in full-on 18th-century Provençal style by the Airelles Collection in 2014, but managed to emerge classic yet not clichéd, formal but not fusty.—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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But dismissing it as fusty would be an unfortunate act of self-deprivation.—
Rachel Howard,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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