noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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become
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Their form of mutual ownership has become an anachronism .
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Compound interest and present-value tables have rapidly become anachronisms .
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But Johnson may have sensed that he was becoming an anachronism and that a new era of professional management was at hand.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The harvest festival celebrations in the town are an anachronism since almost everyone who lives there nowadays works in an office.
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The law on mining is simply an anachronism in this day and age.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compound interest and present-value tables have rapidly become anachronisms.
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He often expressed his conviction that a closed society is an anachronism in a global society.
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Isn't the school just an anachronism ?
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Kinton was a ridiculous, out-dated anachronism , perhaps, but no more of an anachronism than Mabel herself.
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The hostel was named Rameses Villa; a charming anachronism .
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The idea of the great house as a pattern for everyone is already an anachronism in the mind of Sir Leicester.
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There are anachronisms and incongruities over what properly appertains to a given age or nation.