How to Use ahistorical in a Sentence

ahistorical

adjective
  • To say Iran is not a threat is ahistorical.
    — FOXNews.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But in a certain sense, there’s no such thing as an ahistorical time.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
  • To say this is ahistorical and offensive doesn't even scratch the surface.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The assumption that people who arrive poor will stay that way is ahistorical.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • At times, however, even this part of his analysis is flawed and ahistorical.
    — Bridget L. Coggins, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Much punditry about this era — including my own — has been even more ahistorical.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 10 May 2018
  • Hollywood loves to terraform its own past to make a buck, and this approach is always ahistorical.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • China, on the other hand, has a somewhat ahistorical view of the global South.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • 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 mediocre ones muck up their work with ahistorical paint colors or materials.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Biden doesn't lose ground going forward, the 2022 midterms may prove to be an ahistorical event.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 6 June 2021
  • This play is a welcome antidote to such fuzzy, ahistorical nostalgia.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Attempts to strip organizations of their rights are thus both unwise and ahistorical.
    — Joe Albanese, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • The result is a moving if willfully ahistorical study of an agrarian paradise lost.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Yet, this argument rests on an ahistorical understanding of the civil rights movement — one in which its work is complete.
    — Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Johnson’s comments, criticized as glib and ahistorical, angered both sides of the Irish border.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could be as bad or worse than the 2000 bust are uninformed or ahistorical.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • To Reid-Henry, democracy is not a static and ahistorical system.
    — Mario Del Pero, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • As before, the exhibition takes up two floors and is even more intently ahistorical than its predecessor, mixing old and new from beginning to end.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Finally, there were the aspects that both Duffy and Isgreen acknowledge are simply ahistorical.
    — Will Bedingfield, Wired, 25 Oct. 2021
  • To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real way to be unreal and ahistorical.
    — David Treuer, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Kinzinger was reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s ahistorical speech to the Knesset.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022

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