Sentence examples for antiquated term from inspiring English sources

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"The word 'publication,' it's an antiquated term," he said.

I didn't correct him, didn't explain that part of what I was teaching was that "Oriental" was an antiquated term.

But a year later, he used the derogatory and antiquated term to describe the raucous town halls that have dogged conservative lawmakers.

The fifteenth, fourteenth, thirteenth, and twelfth centuries each have their own lists, as does the catchall "before 12th century," notable for its outmoded Anglo-Saxon administrative vocabulary—"wapentake," "witenagemot"—and for a charming, antiquated term for vocabulary itself: "word-hoard".

"No longer will any law of the United States refer to Asian Americans in such an offensive way, and I applaud and thank President Obama for signing my bill to get rid of this antiquated term.

From Lavoisier's perspective, for example, the antiquated term dephlogisticated air sometimes means "what remains when phlogiston is removed from the air" (in which case, because there is no such substance as phlogiston, the term fails to pick out anything in the world).

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Could it be that even as the state attracts forward-looking productions, the rest of the country still looks upon Texas in antiquated terms?

You gonna do it the way I want it, or do I get a colored guy who's Jewish to do it?" referencing Sammy Davis Jr in antiquated terms.

This "naturalistic epistemology" seems to imply that 'know' and 'justified' are antiquated terms – as empty as 'phlogiston' or 'soul'soul

Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms".

In too many art forms, excellence has become equated with inertia, continually defined in oppressively narrow and antiquated terms.

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