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also prehistorical
as in medieval
having passed its time of use or usefulness
prehistoric notions about mental illness that have no place in today's world
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Recent Examples of prehistoric
Its image is painted on ancient Southwestern pottery and chiseled into prehistoric petroglyphs that line Texas canyons.
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Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our understanding of the prehistoric world.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Earlier this year, a prehistoric village was also discovered near Inverness, Scotland, at the site of a future golf course.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
The careful arrangement of ossuaries within the dolmen suggests communal burial practices and sophisticated ceremonial planning, providing archaeologists with invaluable insight into societal structures in prehistoric Iberia.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
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Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our understanding of the prehistoric world.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Earlier this year, a prehistoric village was also discovered near Inverness, Scotland, at the site of a future golf course.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
The careful arrangement of ossuaries within the dolmen suggests communal burial practices and sophisticated ceremonial planning, providing archaeologists with invaluable insight into societal structures in prehistoric Iberia.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prehistoric
Adjective
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And then there’s getting medieval on your ass.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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Ludwig Hurtado Julie d’Aubigny Want to get medieval with it this All Hallow’s Eve?—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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An archaic Kentucky law had been brought out of hiding in 1920 when Will Lockett, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to die for raping a nine-year-old white girl from Lexington.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps, the time has come to go beyond archaic political loyalties and engage issues on the basis of evidence, merit, and truth, not short-term political expediency.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Howitt and Aghion followed up with a theory on how creative destruction allows one technological advance to give way to another, so what's a breakthrough in one generation is obsolete by the next.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
13 Oct. 2025
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Far from being obsolete, language degrees are the very foundation for preparing graduates to use, guide and improve these technologies.—
Annie K. Lamar,
Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Because some of the paintings depict a person drumming with their hands, researchers suggest the neolithic people practiced rituals in these areas.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
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At sunrise this morning, about 15,000 people gathered at Stonehenge — the world’s most famous neolithic monument — to mark the arrival of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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“Prehistoric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prehistoric. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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