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- adverb In an
ahistorical way.
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Examples
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This is too often taken as evidence that Shakespeare surpassed his time, and was here pleading ahistorically for universal tolerance.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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The real question is, why is productivity ahistorically high.
Labor Market Puzzle, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The ahistorically low immigration quotas of the period you mention were in place mostly because Republican politicians correctly calculated that pandering to the anti-immigration sentiments of their constituents was likely to be awarded at the ballot box (both because anti-immigration voters appreciated such policies, and because sharply reducing immigration would tend to crimp the creation of new Democratic voters.).
Matthew Yglesias » Brink Lindsey Accuses Progressives of Peddling “Nostalgianomics” 2009
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With cohorts, David N. Dinkins, New York's first black mayor, Basil A. Paterson, a state senator and New and York's secretary of state and Representative Charles B. Rangel, Mr. Sutton, like some youthful 'thug' employing 'Nigga', ahistorically, as a term of endearment for his mates, gloried in the quartet's denunciation as 'the gang of four!'
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With cohorts, David N. Dinkins, New York's first black mayor, Basil A. Paterson, a state senator and New and York's secretary of state and Representative Charles B. Rangel, Mr. Sutton, like some youthful 'thug' employing 'Nigga', ahistorically, as a term of endearment for his mates, gloried in the quartet's denunciation as 'the gang of four!'
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This is what makes the shriekers in here stand out as zealotous... that they ahistorically excise their analysis from reality... and thedata.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture: 2009
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Perhaps they believe ahistorically that being responsible is very American.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Opposes Climate Protectionism? 2009
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I believe that one of the most popular majors in America today is economics, but economists believe that the subject is best learned ahistorically.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives, Political Correctness and the Academy 2009
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This is too often taken as evidence that Shakespeare surpassed his time, and was here pleading ahistorically for universal tolerance.
Nazis 2009
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Yes, reason, not infallible utterances or reading bones or tea leaves, not even poring over the Bible for ahistorically and unhelpfully easy answers to complex modern problems.
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