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Recent Examples of archaism
Narrator Mary Lewis, raised in Newfoundland herself, delivers the book in a manner that seems stilted at first but grows more appealing as Lewis moves further into the story, with its pleasing archaisms and evocation of balked communication.
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Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
For the Latin American left, that vision has congealed into archaism.
—The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
But the main challenge for any translator is to remain true to Virgil without wrenching him into archaism or stiffness.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
Full of archaisms, the language has a neo-Nabokovian extravagance, occasionally overindulgent.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
For the Latin American left, that vision has congealed into archaism.
—The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
But the main challenge for any translator is to remain true to Virgil without wrenching him into archaism or stiffness.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
Full of archaisms, the language has a neo-Nabokovian extravagance, occasionally overindulgent.
—Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archaism
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The Guggenheim Bilbao will present a major survey show dedicated to Tarsila do Amaral (b. 1886; d. 1973), a key figure of Brazilian modernism whose work is also being featured in Brasil!—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Lebedev is more in line with the lessons of modernism and postmodernism than literary yarn-weavers like yours truly.—
Boris Fishman,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Pepperberg demonstrated that Alex asked questions, performed simple addition and, in a few instances, coined neologisms.—
Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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As a host, Scherzinger could play the eager theater kid to the likes of the intimidating Simon Cowell, throwing out neologisms like schamazing.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2024
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There is even a colloquialism for those who curry favor among the moneyed on the island of Palm Beach.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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It’s been a year of chaos and colloquialisms, as the internet shaped not only our vocabulary but our entire political system.—
Kate Lindsay,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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Overall, Roman coinage comes with a variety of portraiture and other imagery, but every image and portrait has a purpose for whoever is deciding what to produce for the general Roman public.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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As the South Asian community has put down roots over the decades, so have the organizations devoted to creating third places – a coinage by sociologist Ray Oldenburg for the places where people can gather, socialize and bond outside work and school.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
17 Jan. 2025
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In fact, Mandarin itself used thousands of loanwords from Japanese and English when new disciplines such as sociology and natural science entered China’s curricula a mere century ago.—
Tenzin Dorjee,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Nov. 2023
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During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion.—
Phillip M. Carter,
Fortune Well,
12 June 2023
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When Russia targets other European neighbors, though, the West resorts to its own euphemisms to avoid directly acknowledging what Putin is doing.—
Phillips Payson O’Brien,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2025
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Even now, with no way to hide behind my usual euphemisms or analogies, emoting still feels at times too frank and candid.—
Hannah Seo,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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Barkley could be the deciding factor in terms of getting the team to another Super Bowl appearance.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Now, this year, lawmakers will use the first 11-plus months of Trump’s second term to decide what to do about huge swaths of that overhaul — known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Archaism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaism. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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