Crossword-Solution: THROWBACK
We have 9 clues for the answer “THROWBACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A nostalgic reminder of the past | 1 answer |
| person or thing that reverts to an earlier type | 1 answer |
| archaism | 3 answers |
| recidivism | 20 answers |
| slipping back | 22 answers |
| recurrence | 28 answers |
| tergiversation | 32 answers |
| atavism | 34 answers |
| Defection | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with THROWBACK (5)
Bram, after nearly a century of this intermixing of bloods, was a throwback--a white man, so far as his skin and his hair and his eyes went.
Forty years, more or less, after Shan Tung lost his life and his cue at Copper Creek Camp, there was born on a firth of Coronation Gulf a dog who was named Wapi, which means "the Walrus." Wapi, at full growth, was a throwback of more than forty dog generations.
For a man who had spent the entire 1960s as an embarrassing throwback to the 1950s, Stallman didn't mind living out of step with his peers.
Osgood's account, Barnabas's language was a throwback from the days when he was first mate on a Liverpool packet.
Their theoretical violence was the throwback from their weakness, their bitterness, and the suppression of their vitality.
Quotes with THROWBACK (3)
Character has outlived its day. In ancient, primitive times, when biologically weak man struggled against omnipotent nature, character was useful, beneficial; with hideous labor it shoved the heavy stone of human impotence forward. We learned to praise ourselves, to admire character, to prostrate ourselves before it, make a fetish of it. But today no one has the courage to discredit character, although, psychologically speaking, it is now a throwback, simply reactionary.
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court — and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.
Underlying all these breaches is a single systemic security flaw, exactly 3.375 inches long. Credit card magstripes are a technological anachronism, a throwback to the age of the eight-track tape, and today the United States is virtually alone in nurturing this security hole.