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Discover LudwigThe phrase "already anachronistic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is outdated or belongs to a different time period than the one being referenced, often implying that it is no longer relevant.
Example: "The use of typewriters in modern offices is already anachronistic, as most people rely on computers for their work."
Alternatives: "outdated" or "obsolete".
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The very idea of domestic servants is already anachronistic.
In "Crisis," Allen writes himself back, in current form, into an time in which he was actually already anachronistic.
— is already anachronistic, keyed to the four-decade-old, ever-wearier reign of postminimalism: sprawling environmental works, conceptual theatrics, Richard Serra sculpture.
Almost every serious observer of health systems believes that the great general hospitals are already anachronistic, but because hospitals are where so much of the power lies, and so much of the public attachment, it would be a brave forecaster who suggested their imminent demise.
Instead of making the American electoral system ever more opaque and complicated by creating exceptions to the already anachronistic Electoral College system, as this California ballot initiative does, let's do away with the college altogether and institute a true one-man-one-vote system for electing presidential candidates.
Even when new, the Turbo R was already anachronistic.
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That anachronistic bit of provincial red tape was worth it.
The artistry with which Mr. Williams's Oscar-nominated score for "The Patriot" minutely matches the action proves the value of the traditional method, but both the artistry and the method may already be anachronistic.
For 21 years after 1955, Chicago was run by Richard Daley senior, a machine politician of the old school whose style was already looking anachronistic when his police enthusiastically beat up dissenters (as well as journalists and bystanders) at the Democratic convention in 1968.
They may well contain "a variety of ecological zones," and take the 1950s idea of bürolandschaft (office landscape) to a whole new level, but they already seem peculiarly anachronistic, particularly for an organisation some describe as "easily the most fascinating company on the planet".
Apple Computer's iTunes store (which already bears an anachronistic name) will expand its offerings of TV shows.
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