archaistic

Definition of archaisticnext

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Adjective
  • The La Costa Canyon High School Theatre Department invites the community to an evening of laughter, music, and medieval mischief with this year’s spring musical Monty Python’s Spamalot.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Named after the Frankish noble family that included Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, the Carolingian era was a transformative time in medieval Europe, where power was consolidated and regional cultures began to blend.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Trump’s 60-day suspension gives Congress the cover to repeal the archaic shipping law.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2026
  • With news breaking that Meghan was pregnant with their son Archie, she and Harry were widely viewed as the fresh new faces of an archaic institution.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • But then, the fear that AI could render swaths of the software trade outmoded moved a wave of the savings-for-retirement crowd to demand their money back.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Jones’s novels derive much of their richness from her striking capacity to use literary and cultural tropes that may seem outmoded to new ends.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Its walls of red brick had grown thicker after years of gunked ink, the slats of its wooden floors were wildly uneven beneath the buckling weight of antiquated iron machines.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Idaho is taking steps to bolster its antiquated coroner system following stories by ProPublica that documented how lawmakers have repeatedly failed to fix problems that harm grieving families.
    Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • All other presentation apps seem dull and dated.
    Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Court records feature other nuggets that feel dated and absurd when re-read this week.
    Matt Baker, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Charles also had one out-of-date license to operate a school bus at the time of the incident, investigators stated previously.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
  • The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • So Apple got to work making its biggest success obsolete.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His lab continues to investigate diffuse gastric cancer, with the hope of developing a treatment or drug that makes a total gastrectomy obsolete.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • However simple his artistic code, few Britpop-era megastars have done more than Albarn to forswear allegiance to fusty rock purism—perhaps not even Thom Yorke, who may have written Kid A but did not go so far as naming his child after Missy Elliott.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The image that usually beckons of a vintage store is one that is fusty, cramped and dimly lit, filled with garments organized without design or backstory.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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