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also mediaeval
as in rusty
having passed its time of use or usefulness
get rid of that medieval kerosene stove—it stinks and it's dangerous
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Recent Examples of medieval
Mali is one of the world’s great musical cradles, and its sounds have been beguiling foreigners ever since the medieval explorer Ibn Battuta provided the only surviving eyewitness account of the empire.
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Opening Day has arrived in Paris for the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral, now 5½ years after a disastrous fire nearly destroyed the medieval landmark.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
The gorgeous frozen lake feels like skating right into a fairytale thanks to the Bled Island and medieval castle overlooking the ice rink.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
The 2019 fire destroyed the spire, roof, and intricate wooden beams of the medieval structure, requiring precise historical reconstruction.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
Opening Day has arrived in Paris for the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral, now 5½ years after a disastrous fire nearly destroyed the medieval landmark.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
The gorgeous frozen lake feels like skating right into a fairytale thanks to the Bled Island and medieval castle overlooking the ice rink.
—Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
The 2019 fire destroyed the spire, roof, and intricate wooden beams of the medieval structure, requiring precise historical reconstruction.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medieval
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Position the rusty sections of your tools in the bucket and soak the tools for 12 to 24 hours to loosen the rust.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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How To Properly Clean Cast Iron Don't toss your cast iron in soapy water to soak for hours—another mistake that will lead to a rusty pan.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
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Kyiv has been struggling to boost military recruitment, stiffen its forces’ defensive earthworks, reform archaic command staffs and boost the output of Ukrainian arms factories.David Axe, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Amos Hochstein, the charismatic U.S. envoy leading the ceasefire talks, has largely shied away from Lebanon’s archaic internal affairs and the question of the day after.Firas Maksad, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
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Whitaker has dealt with challenges including a surge in close calls between planes, a shortage of air traffic controllers and antiquated equipment.David Koenig, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Anyone who has filled out their tax return applied for a driver’s license, or booked a doctor’s appointment knows how frustratingly antiquated government services can feel.Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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These are prehistoric mammal relatives that lived during the Permian period (around 299-252 million years ago) of Earth's history.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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Today, the caverns hold evidence of both the Maya and the people who inhabited the region before them, as well as the fossils of prehistoric megafauna.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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This verdant bay in Brittany's far southeast shelters 40-odd islands that are known for their neolithic monuments.The Week UK, theweek, 12 Oct. 2024
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In southern Italy's Basilicata region, caves snake through the hillside town of Matera – the remains of neolithic villages that date back more than 6,000 years.David Morgan, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
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In a new study, scientists analyzed hundreds of fossilized droppings and vomit, called bromalites, to reconstruct dinosaur food webs, uncovering how they were influenced by climate and by other species’ extinction.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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In a new study, scientists in Poland, Sweden, Norway and Hungary set out to conduct the most comprehensive study so far of fossilized remains of digestive material.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Last year, an ancient, still-active volcano was found off the Canadian coast, covered in millions of giant eggs laid by Pacific white skates (a hauntingly beautiful cartilaginous fish that looks like a stingray).Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Other lineages of ancient humans also went extinct around 40,000 years ago and disappeared just like the Neanderthals ultimately did, said Johannes Krause, director at the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.Katie Hunt, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Medieval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medieval. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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