archaistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archaistic
Adjective
  • Not medieval Spain, but as recently as the 1980s in the Soviet Union.
    Olga & Igor Alterman, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Sonja Drimmer is an associate professor of medieval art and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). NOTES 1.
    Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The chain gang will still be on the field as a backup option, but the archaic measuring system will no longer be the primary way to determine a first down or not on close plays.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • That would have been necessary in the technologically archaic Cohen building — absent the existential question now hovering over the networks.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Not least the outmoded idea that Republicans, when in power, shouldn’t use every available lever to implement their agenda.
    Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law allocated $1 billion in funding to municipal gas utilities to fund the replacement and upgrading of their outmoded infrastructure.
    Dawn White, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2018, Russia blamed Israel for an incident in which an antiquated Syrian S-200 anti-aircraft missile destroyed a Russian military transport while targeting Israeli fighter jets, killing all 15 Russian personnel aboard.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Too many fouls, not enough freedom for creativity and an antiquated two halves format have kept him from diving in.
    C.J. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • All this power means that the Switch 2 games won’t look so dated compared to its higher-end peers.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Not great, but certainly good, spirited and sweet and filled with wonderful songs and some canny updates to extremely dated material.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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