throwbacks in English

noun
1
a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic.
the eyes could be an ancestral throwback
noun

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1. Yet these throwbacks get this viewer in flash-forward mode, Anchorwise

2. His confidants are throwbacks to the past, lukewarm at best to economic and political pluralism.

3. Andro, like most of Lee's solo work, will be a hard pill to swallow for anyone expecting throwbacks to '80s hair metal or soundtracks for Sunset Strip debauchery

4. From high-end race helmets to basic retro throwbacks, Cycle Gear carries full-face, ADV, dirt, half and open-face helmets from top manufacturers like Arai, AGV, Shoei, HJC, Bilt, Sedici and many more

5. Atavistic [ ăt′ə-vĭs ′tĭk ] Relating to an inherited trait that reappears in an individual after being absent from a strain of organism for several generations. Atavistic traits were formerly thought to be throwbacks to ancestral types but are now known to be due …