archaistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for archaistic
Adjective
  • The tradition of the funeral procession actually dates back to Ancient Egypt (maybe even earlier!), and spans throughout the Greco-Roman empire, the medieval age, the Renaissance, and continues to modern day.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
  • After being updated by Patel, the script combines medieval knights with feudal India.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • His work in building the Augment MBA program is a response to a problem many business schools don’t recognize: the risk of over-reliance on archaic frameworks instead of education in service of action.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Federal efforts would be better spent intervening, even by use of a consent decree, to dismantle an education system that locks poor, overwhelmingly minority students in archaic education bureaucracies based on their income and ZIP code.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 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
  • Instead of using this opportunity to make Bond a more inclusive franchise, Bezos could very well lean into the franchise’s outmoded machismo, returning Bond to an aggressive womanizer and pillar of a brand of masculinity that aligns with the values of the far right.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In my world of provider directories—which include providers’ names, addresses, phone numbers and more—typical methods for updating data are antiquated and include things such as call campaigns, attestation from providers or their health groups and manual roster updates.
    Robert Lindner, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Remarkably, remnants of that antiquated mindset still persist in practice today in the State of Connecticut.
    Lisa Seminara, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • It was wholly expected that the March CPI report would feel a bit dated, because the lion’s share of Trump’s tariffs went into effect earlier this month.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
  • 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
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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