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atavisme

A reappearance of an earlier characteristic.

        atavisme
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        Examples for "throwback"
        Examples for "throwback"
        1
        The format is new, sure, but the experience itself is a throwback.
        Wired
        2
        A; I think there are a lot of throwback elements to it.
        Reuters
        3
        Luke Donald's diamond-patterned sleeveless jumpers are a throwback to older fashion days.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Frankie The Heartstrings are a throwback to a different era of indie-pop.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Health and Self A nonjudgmental gym, Portuguese soap, and a throwback manicure.
        NY Magazine
        1
        It was the reversion of power; it brought her a great exultation.
        The Pool in the Desert
        2
        Give it seven or 10 years, though, and the reversion usually happens.
        Reuters
        3
        Words formed by the reversion of letters of former words; examples, 699-m.
        Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
        4
        Selfishness results in anarchy, a reversion to the Ishmaelite type of life.
        Friendship
        5
        But in regard to plants Dr. Hooker questions the fact of reversion.
        The Antiquity of Man
        Ús de atavism en anglès
        1
        A walking microbe; an example of atavism; a throw-back to the tail period.
        No Man's Land
        2
        The force of habit, the law of atavism, if you like.
        From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
        3
        The other half is ruled by atavism of the 19th century.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Such an individual was an atavism, and Red-Eye was an even greater atavism.
        Before Adam
        5
        But this was only a momentary atavism, and he pushed it roughly away.
        Misery
        6
        He was too decided an atavism to draw the crowd's admiration.
        The Game
        7
        You now see why the word 'atavism' is used for crime.
        Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
        8
        What is the meaning of these words: atavism; penumbra; semaphore; astigmatic; insouciance; mise-en-scene; kinetic?
        Americans All / Stories of American Life of To-Day
        9
        He was white and sick and muttered something about atavism.
        Diane of the Green Van
        10
        This rural atavism, then, seized Robert Walmsley and possessed him.
        The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
        11
        Bohr was an atavism-theycaught him trying to 'take over' there, and banished him.
        Man of Many Minds
        12
        Curious atavism, curious recrudescence of a dead idea of man!
        Mike Fletcher: A Novel
        13
        Don't I know what atavism means, and race alienation, and hunger for my own?
        The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
        14
        Thus we had the advantage of many eyes in our feud with Red-Eye, the atavism.
        Before Adam
        15
        All cases of atavism are treated in the hospitals.
        Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
        16
        This is atavism, or evolutionary throwback activity, at work.
        Wired
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        Translations for atavism
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        atavismo
        Atavism a través del temps
        Atavism per variant geogràfica
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