How to Use ahistorical in a Sentence

ahistorical

adjective
  • That seems to be a position that is at war with the whole thrust of the 14th Amendment and very ahistorical.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But in a certain sense, there’s no such thing as an ahistorical time.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • If Biden doesn't lose ground going forward, the 2022 midterms may prove to be an ahistorical event.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 6 June 2021
  • China, on the other hand, has a somewhat ahistorical view of the global South.
    Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • To say this is ahistorical and offensive doesn't even scratch the surface.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
  • That there’s no acknowledgment of any of this, in a show dealing with cops and a group like the Phalanx, is ahistorical and downright bizarre.
    Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • Putin is not the only world leader who has harkened back to an ahistorical past to justify his decisions in the present.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Joseph, whose presence is not ahistorical, is there, too . . .
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
  • There was, throughout the evening, an odd sense of ahistorical detachment from the issues that challenge France, and the new President.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • But the authority that the book projects derives from ahistorical constructs, like brains and genes.
    Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Some movies about the civil rights movement, said Welch, focus more on ahistorical drama rather than facts.
    al, 5 July 2022
  • The assumption that people who arrive poor will stay that way is ahistorical.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • What is the point of this ornate, ahistorical violence?
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
  • At times, however, even this part of his analysis is flawed and ahistorical.
    Bridget L. Coggins, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • But this thin and spare model of humanness is ahistorical.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2010
  • That Scott had harsher words for welfare assistance than for slavery is not just an overt ahistorical reach.
    Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Herzog’s Onoda is not an ahistorical lunatic, but rather a man with admirable focus who clings to life and refuses to cede a fight.
    Kristen Millares Young, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
  • Above all, the idea that the least developed countries in the world have received only the cost of industrialization and not the many benefits is ahistorical.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Much punditry about this era — including my own — has been even more ahistorical.
    Ezra Klein, Vox, 10 May 2018
  • Now the company wants a federal judge to dismiss the case not on its merits, but on the dubious and ahistorical claim that the whistleblowers lack the authority to bring the lawsuit.
    Chuck Grassley, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Torpid landscape shots ground the film in Scotland, but the precise location is unreadable, the time an ahistorical summer break.
    The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Johnson’s comments, criticized as glib and ahistorical, angered both sides of the Irish border.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The mediocre ones muck up their work with ahistorical paint colors or materials.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 July 2021
  • Kinzinger was reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s ahistorical speech to the Knesset.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Look at your social media timelines, your news programs, even your school curriculums: the ahistorical agenda is going strong across the United States.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Some thought of the film as an ahistorical trifle, with its neo-Romantic punk soundtrack, cheeky American star, and emphasis on pretty baubles.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2021
  • To Reid-Henry, democracy is not a static and ahistorical system.
    Mario Del Pero, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Attempts to strip organizations of their rights are thus both unwise and ahistorical.
    Joe Albanese, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But that is ahistorical in and of itself because Black women have been calling attention to the ways in which they are subjected to anti-Black violence and harassment online since the 1990s.
    Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 10 May 2024
  • Israel has been reimagined as the nexus of Western power in the Middle East, an ahistorical, antisemitic fiction that ignores the reality.
    Julia Jassey, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024

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