anachronistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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It is often said that we shouldn’t anachronistically import into Wagner’s works the ways in which they were heard and used long after his death.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Of course, Kronthaler accessorized it anachronistically with pale blue striped rugby socks.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
What is still referred to, reflexively and anachronistically, as higher education is supposedly run by and for persons who are products of, and devoted to, learning.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 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
They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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