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Recent Examples of anachronism
The Plus 8 may be the quintessential Morgan, conceived at a time when the British automaker’s four-cylinder cars were quickly becoming anachronisms, and long before BMW power came to the rescue.
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
In places, the anachronism did produce some exciting friction: Matisse’s four relief bronzes of women’s backs, borrowing from the massing and stylization of African sculpture, hung alongside six ornery watercolors of nude women by the contemporary South African painter Marlene Dumas.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 May 2025
Image The title seems an anachronism, from a time when paternalistic Americans, confident in their own flawed democracy, envisioned a world shaped in their own image.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In times when digital reading is on the rise, a print magazine might be seen as both an anachronism and an ecological crime.
—Harper's Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
In places, the anachronism did produce some exciting friction: Matisse’s four relief bronzes of women’s backs, borrowing from the massing and stylization of African sculpture, hung alongside six ornery watercolors of nude women by the contemporary South African painter Marlene Dumas.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 May 2025
Image The title seems an anachronism, from a time when paternalistic Americans, confident in their own flawed democracy, envisioned a world shaped in their own image.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In times when digital reading is on the rise, a print magazine might be seen as both an anachronism and an ecological crime.
—Harper's Magazine, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anachronism
Noun
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Narrator Mary Lewis, raised in Newfoundland herself, delivers the book in a manner that seems stilted at first but grows more appealing as Lewis moves further into the story, with its pleasing archaisms and evocation of balked communication.—
Katherine A. Powers,
Washington Post,
21 Jan. 2020
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That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.—
A.O. SCOTT,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2018
Noun
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Already in July she’s done Short Bandana (okay, that was a throwback), and now this glossy lewk.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
8 July 2025
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This, then, was Oasis in the raw, a throwback to their unstoppable ascent in much smaller venues than this rather than the enormo-dome gigs of their latter years.—
Mark Sutherland,
Variety,
4 July 2025
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“Anachronism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anachronism. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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