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How to use the word antiquated in a Sentence?

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The call to end the antiquated practice of clock changing is gaining momentum throughout the nation, studies have shown many benefits of a year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is why the Florida legislature voted to make it permanent in 2018. I'm proud to reintroduce this bipartisan bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, and give our nation's families more stability throughout the year.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I truly hope this starts a larger conversation regarding gender identity, gender expression, and antiquated stereotypes.

– Justin Wetherell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Secretary Pompeo's speech today on the' Commission on the Unalienable Rights' loosely clothed a foray into the culture wars under the seal of the US State Department, secretary Pompeo need to ground the relationship between citizens and their government in religious terms is both antiquated and alarming. Secretary Pompeo insistence on bashing major American news organizations during a speech about America's foundational principles is cynical, if in keeping with the views of President Donald Trump.

– Rob Berschinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Secretary Pompeo need to ground the relationship between citizens and their government in religious terms is both antiquated and alarming. Secretary Pompeo insistence on bashing major American news organizations during a speech about America's foundational principles is cynical, if in keeping with the views of President Donald Trump.

– Rob Berschinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I will push for us to waste no time on this and to make it happen as soon as possible, richmond, we will finish the job of removing these antiquated symbols of racism and hate.

– Levar Stoney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have a long way to go, i think that were working off of an antiquated contractual system. Were galloping toward a new industry but not thinking about recalibrating financial structures and compensation rates, taking care of producers and writers.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In many cases, our data was sent to third-party contractors years ago, the way we looked at data management 10 years ago seems antiquated today, yet that old data is still out there being managed by third parties, using legacy systems.

– Adam Levin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Requiring physical attendance at many shareholder meetings in order to exercise such votes is impractical and antiquated.

– Chris Phillips

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If the cheerleaders can’t contact the players, then the players shouldn’t be able to contact the cheerleaders, the antiquated stereotype of women needing to hide for their own protection is not permitted in America and certainly not in the workplace.

– Sara Blackwell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is no question that out of the three elements of the triad, the Minuteman missiles are at a stage now where they’re probably the most antiquated of the triad.

– Leon Panetta

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Once I learned of the policy and its antiquated wording, I took steps to have it corrected, this is how we will address any similar issue facing The Kentucky Department of Corrections.

– Corrections Commissioner Rodney Ballard

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We’d been relying on the same two antiquated weather protection products for a thousand years: the umbrella and the raincoat, this industry was ripe for innovation.

– Alan Kaufman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The issue is -- do the kinds of judges that he says he would insist on, the kind who would overrule Roe v. Wade, who don't believe in gay rights or women's rights, but who think the Constitution is frozen, if he really believes in their philosophy, it's an antiquated philosophy, but it turns out Ted Cruz drops that when it doesn't serve his purpose.

– Laurence Tribe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I really believe that the traditional, antiquated crunch has seen better days, and it’s time to make a change.

– Tony Horton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's certainly antiquated ; it's not consumer friendly, it's not a system where responsible adults find a convenient way to shop for these products. Someone who is of legal age should not be constricted.

– Duane Milne

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are letting Iran export its oil to markets that we prevent our own companies from accessing, any deal that lifts sanctions on Iranian oil will disadvantage American companies unless we lift the antiquated ban on our own oil exports.

– Lisa Murkowski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are letting Iran export its oil to markets that we prevent our own companies from accessing, any deal that lifts sanctions on Iranian oil will disadvantage American companies unless we lift the antiquated ban on our own oil exports. And Murkowski’s committee held a hearing June 9 on a bill that she and Sen. Heitkamp, North Dakota Democrat, have co-sponsored on lifting the ban. However, a top Senate staff told FoxNews.com after the Iran deal was struck Tuesday that Murkowski has no intentions of holding up a major foreign policy vote or international trade legislation over lifting the ban, likely references to the Trans-Pacific Partnershippact being debated in Congress and the upcoming votes on the Iran nuclear deal. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said this spring that Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz does n’t think.

– Lisa Murkowski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows, to that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag in the U.S. finds ideological affinity with the old South African flag. Both flags show off past injustice and neither flag represents the idealism of breaking from divisive pasts in search of new, inclusive realities.

– Eusebius McKaiser

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

– George Steiner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

– Maria Montessori

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

– Ellen Glasgow

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

– Ellen Glasgow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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