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Adjective
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The quaint city suffered very little damage during World War II, meaning its distinctly medieval structures have managed to remain intact over the years.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
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Take the quiz here … LEGENDARY LISTING – Jaw-dropping medieval castle with 100 rooms hits market with nearly 1,000 years of history.—
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FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Nearly 20 years later, the law may seem archaic, the Enquirer previously reported, and may be a violation of the First Amendment.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Namely, what many scholars took to be the fundamentals of the discipline were not empirical constants at all, but the fleeting patterns of an outmoded ideological regime.—
Jason Blakely,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Nor are these outmoded systems able to improve profit margins for lenders.—
Geoff Green,
Fortune,
22 Dec. 2025
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The pair led City to the Third Division title in May 1985, but triumph turned to tragedy on the final day of the season as the antiquated main stand caught fire with devastating consequences.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Insufferable antiquated federal standards reflect low expectations that do not meet the modern day needs of working New Yorkers.—
Gian Carlo Pedulla,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Integrating these hues doesn't mean your home has to feel heavy or dated.—
Sophie Aliece Hollis,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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Yet The Day After, with its cartoonish visuals and dated fashions, gave me nightmares.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The system relies on the vehicle’s registration, which can often have out-of-date addresses.—
Ginny Monk,
ProPublica,
23 Dec. 2025
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Anything with frayed wires or out-of-date labels should be safely tossed.—
Kylie Petty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Or why roads and other critical infrastructure projects now take untold years and insane amounts of money to complete, and by the time they are finally opened are already rendered all but obsolete?—
Lee Steinhauer,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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The electrical infrastructure was obsolete, deemed undersized and non-compliant with current code.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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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
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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 12 Jan. 2026.
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