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Six example sentences with anachronism, each labelled with its topic.
A wristwatch on a Roman centurion is the anachronism audiences catch fastest, and no amount of costume research prevents it.
Movies
Calling the medieval guilds trade unions is an anachronism that flattens four centuries of very different bargaining.
History
Reading modern rights language into a Stoic text is an anachronism, however tempting the parallel first appears.
Philosophy
The painter dressed the Roman soldiers in Florentine armor, an anachronism his patrons would have found perfectly natural.
Art
The striking clock in Julius Caesar is a famous anachronism, since Romans had no such device to count the hours.
Literature
Players spotted an anachronism in the medieval town, a wooden bench joined with steel bolts that would not exist for centuries.
Gaming
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