variants
also mediaeval
as in rusty
having passed its time of use or usefulness
get rid of that medieval kerosene stove—it stinks and it's dangerous
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Recent Examples of medieval
High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe Britannica.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
Iceland’s Medieval Whale Hunters (Hakai Magazine) by Andrew Chapman
In the medieval era, most whale-hunting cultures focused on relatively small cetaceans living close to the shores.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 Dec. 2024
The color and the silhouettes of her clothes were inspired by medieval dragons.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
The word has been in medieval parlance for centuries.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2025
Iceland’s Medieval Whale Hunters (Hakai Magazine) by Andrew Chapman
In the medieval era, most whale-hunting cultures focused on relatively small cetaceans living close to the shores.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 Dec. 2024
The color and the silhouettes of her clothes were inspired by medieval dragons.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
The word has been in medieval parlance for centuries.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medieval
Adjective
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Kansas City looked rusty at times and was sloppy at others, but the Chiefs never beat themselves.—
Zak Keefer,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Seeing Mars, twice the size of the Moon, rising above the lunar horizon like a rusty BB pellet next to a dusty volleyball provided a perfect illustration of the scale and grandeur of the Solar System.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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That led various departments to buy archaic typewriters, 28 kinds of typewriter ribbons, and 132 kinds of pencils.—
Bruce W. Dearstyne / Made by History,
TIME,
13 Jan. 2025
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In the immediate aftermath of the event, it was reported (including here and here and here), and then spread widely on social media, that this was because Southwest was still using an archaic version of Microsoft Windows that had never received the problematic CrowdStrike update.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Though the field was getting crowded with other companies and his original product was now antiquated, Hancock felt there was still plenty of room for innovation.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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The movie was not selected by the antiquated process for Best International Feature Film by India (who went with Laapataa Ladies) or France (Emilia Pérez).—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Does the music industry instantly revert to the prehistoric epoch of 2017—will Snapchat become the hottest major label scouting ground?—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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The objects were removed from the site before the start of construction during two years of careful digging and include prehistoric tools and other artifacts made by human hands, as well as exceedingly rare and well-preserved animal and plant remnants.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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On the day of the shooting, Nixon-Clark was 16 years and 9 months old, just shy of reaching legal status as an adult.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Jan. 2025
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That policy is so old that Chapman remembers it from his rookie year in the NYPD as a young patrolman in East Harlem in 1968.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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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When standing in the presence of a treasure, perhaps a neolithic fertility figure or Egyptian tablet, an icon pops up in the top-left-hand corner of the screen encouraging you to take a picture.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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Because soft tissue does not preserve well, finding fossilized tissue is rare.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
19 Dec. 2024
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The first evidence of the species—in the form of fossilized leaves—came to light in eastern Utah in 1969.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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As in the novel the story is based on, the events kick off with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which was a revolt during the late Eastern Han dynasty of ancient China.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2025
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Met Gala to a dusty archaeological dig in 1930s Egypt in this masterful historical mystery centering on a cursed ancient artifact.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Medieval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medieval. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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