as in fogey
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 throw back
Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Aug. 2025
From nostalgic throwbacks to fresh debuts, the 2025 Indiana State Fair’s free concert series is your ultimate summer playlist - live.
—Samanta Habashy, IndyStar, 31 July 2025
Homage’s apparel bears retro graphics with a vintage aesthetic, including throwbacks featuring classic sports team logos and legendary athletes from various eras.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 31 July 2025
Things get even more complicated with Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the Vision (Paul Bettany), who kicked off Marvel’s streaming era with the inventive TV throwback WandaVision.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 30 July 2025
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Verb
From singalongs to high-energy throwbacks, this all-ages event is a nostalgic trip through the music of the early 2000s, indoors, with air conditioning.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Aug. 2025
From nostalgic throwbacks to fresh debuts, the 2025 Indiana State Fair’s free concert series is your ultimate summer playlist - live.
—Samanta Habashy, IndyStar, 31 July 2025
Homage’s apparel bears retro graphics with a vintage aesthetic, including throwbacks featuring classic sports team logos and legendary athletes from various eras.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 31 July 2025
Things get even more complicated with Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the Vision (Paul Bettany), who kicked off Marvel’s streaming era with the inventive TV throwback WandaVision.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for throw back
Verb
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Under the new kickoff format designed to lessen the chance of big hits, there were 332 more kickoff returns in 2024 than in 2023, when the league recorded the lowest return rate in its history, but 64% of kickoffs still ended in touchbacks and thus were not returned.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Who are the new cast members in 'Wednesday?' Fred Armisen returns as Uncle Fester, a delightful bit of casting.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 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
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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2023
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But, if wages don’t rise to match those jumps, consumer spending could fall and slow the economy.—
Raul Elizalde,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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That rotation has left the market for 1950s and 1960s cars with oversupply and falling prices.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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Her fossil showcased a mixture of humanlike and apelike traits and provided proof that ancient human relatives walked upright 3.2 million years ago.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Aug. 2025
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The Attorney General’s Office declined to comment on the complaint, which was filed in March 2025.—
Mary Jo Pitzl,
AZCentral.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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The Current declined to comment and referred all requests to the NWSL.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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Here are more Denver old-timers preserving the city’s culinary and cultural past while inching toward the future, in alphabetical order.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
13 Aug. 2025
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Inside, the multi-generational crowd united old-timers, who may well have been at some of the Dead’s first Golden Gate Park gigs decades ago with kids and young adults catching live Grateful Dead music for the first time.—
Eric Renner Brown,
Billboard,
4 Aug. 2025
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By Monday, the storm had degenerated in to remnants which were located about 615 miles west of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, with no threat to land, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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Gunther cut a short-but-sweet promo, calling Punk’s fans degenerates and vowing to retain at SummerSlam. WWE Raw Opening Segment: B- Sheamus Def.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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And as alcoholic has-been Morris, Matthau was fantastically slovenly and cynical, an anti–role model for the ages.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
25 July 2025
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Sonny strides onto the track with unruffled cool—a Pitt signature—and is laconic enough to endure a series of press conferences at which journalists are quick to label him a has-been.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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