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Example sentences for: anachronism
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This action altered the perception that San Juan was a citadel city — already an anachronism at the time — and plans were drawn up to develop the area immediately east of the city, an area that became known as Puerta de Tierra or “gateway to the land.”
But she's an anachronism.
No anachronism here, of course, as cockpit refers, not to a part of an airplane, but to an enclosed place for fighting cocks and, in a transferred sense, to a circular theater.
But without a steady drumbeat of public engagement--through marches, debates, C-SPAN, the works--the labor movement will continue to smell of anachronism.
For the most part, the DOE is an anachronism whose main function under Clinton has been to generate embarrassing news stories about Secretary Hazel O'Leary's expensive globe-trotting.