archaistic

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Adjective
  • The catastrophe, which took place about noon local time, sent one person working on a medieval tower to a hospital while another remained trapped under rubble and debris at the Torre dei Conti.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Torre dei Conti was built by Pope Innocent III for his family and serves as a classic example of a medieval tower-house in Rome.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • So any expansion to what is already a very archaic, cumbersome system will be very hard on small business owners in Michigan.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • When collective desires for liberation are overtaking our political landscape while creating rhetoric around our very bodies to do it, beauty feels almost archaic as a desire.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Until Uber and Lyft arrived, ride-seekers were reliant on outmoded taxicab operations.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This has been attributed in part to surging loads from artificial intelligence data centers, as well as outmoded energy infrastructure.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Both are now antiquated relics to be housed, and studied, in a museum.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That outlook feels askew and antiquated.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Wall-to-wall carpet has long been derided as suburban and dated.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Bersten, meanwhile, dated model Alexis Ren, whom he was paired with in season 27 of DWTS.
    Stephanie Wenger, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An out-of-date photo The sheriff's office said the most recent photograph of Melodee is the one on the FBI's missing person poster, which was taken two years ago.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But someday, this fancy bicycle will also exist as a relic of a bygone era, stored away in a basement, inspiring wonder and awe from those who gaze at its out-of-date technology.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But as technology reshapes health and wellness, that simple number is starting to look obsolete.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Parmar also deliberately streamlines clinic notes by encouraging his providers to avoid the common habit of copying and pasting blocks of obsolete or redundant information in favor of quick updates that can be scanned easily at subsequent visits.
    Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Classical French cuisine found a new audience across London, Paris, and New York—and once-fusty sauces were something worth naming on the menu again.
    Joel Hart, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Now the New York Historical (a rebranding last year dropped both fussy hyphen and fusty noun) is achieving its deferred ambitions, with a hundred-and-seventy-five-million-dollar expansion.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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