as in fogy
a person or thing that is similar to someone or something from the past or that is suited to an earlier time
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She's a throwback to the actresses of the 1950s. The band's music is a throwback to the 1980s.
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Recent Examples of throwback
David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Looks from Balenciaga’s spring 2026 ready-to-wear collection and throwback, vintage Dior pieces strewn about the carpet, along with designs by Alex Perry, among others.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Her October 29 video, a throwback from January, instantly became a hit, bringing in over 858,000 views on Instagram as of Monday.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
The menu’s throwbacks will be much less subtle.
—Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The new district is a throwback of sorts to Orange County’s mid- to late-20th-century role as a bastion of conservative Republicanism.
—David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
Looks from Balenciaga’s spring 2026 ready-to-wear collection and throwback, vintage Dior pieces strewn about the carpet, along with designs by Alex Perry, among others.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Her October 29 video, a throwback from January, instantly became a hit, bringing in over 858,000 views on Instagram as of Monday.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
The menu’s throwbacks will be much less subtle.
—Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throwback
Noun
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Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
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These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.—
Alison Snyder,
Axios,
23 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Barton will have to wait another month to receive his sentence for the six guilty counts the jury returned on charges of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety to football broadcasters Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, and TV and radio host Jeremy Vine.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Thomas returned the ball 10 yards to the Syracuse 23-yard line.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Populists, protectionists, fossil-fuel lobbies, to name a few.—
Natalie Unterstell,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mongolia has spent years fighting for the return of dinosaur fossils from around the globe.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Two things happened on that blustery back-to-school morning that fell exactly a month after my eleventh birthday.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Midway through the third quarter, true freshman linebacker Mason Posa, buried on the depth chart just weeks ago, ripped the ball loose at Washington’s 7-yard line and fell on it himself.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Shildt was an old-timer, relying more on feel and instinct than the cellar-dwelling nerds who run the sport with impossible numbers that don’t mean a damn thing.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Oct. 2025
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California’s vulnerable House Republicans are a diverse gaggle that includes new blood and old-timers, a Trump antagonist and a Trump lickspittle.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In a social media video, Madi said her father's health declined in the months following an early-stage prostate cancer diagnosis.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Administration submitted an emergency filing to the Supreme Court after an appeals court declined to block the injunction.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In other words, the vainly hopeful Larry is about to endure twin humiliations, leaving him feeling bumped out of his life and into the past—a has-been, instantly old.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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DiCaprio makes a great, vital has-been, squinting at the horrors around him in disbelief, but mostly, driven by the need to protect his child.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Once Gacy is caught, the media runs with the details — all those bodies crammed in that crawlspace, some of them buried in trenches Gacy made his employees dig out — and paints his victims as runaways or degenerates who put themselves in danger.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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