anachronistically
Americanadverb
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Can a band that’s purposefully, almost anachronistically distant keep the interests of today’s crowds, accustomed to constant connection?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
Of course, Kronthaler accessorized it anachronistically with pale blue striped rugby socks.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
Most delightfully of all, the over-confident string bean anachronistically decked out in Keanu’s Matrix costume isn’t the living worst.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2020
I really fell for how the show anachronistically positions sound — including Gil Scott-Heron’s poem “Whitey on the Moon” and the theme song from the ’70s sitcom “The Jeffersons” — to propel the story.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
With this purpose he went to a very famous monastery in Champagne called—well, anachronistically known as St. Voltaire's.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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