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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024