Essential Word Roots: It's About Time: Chron and Temp

In an age of celebrity chefs, glossy coffee-table books and multimedia cooking websites, the community cookbook may seem an anachronism, a dog-eared remnant of church suppers and Junior League fund-raisers. New York Times

Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible. The Invention of Science

Some online programs offer asynchronous learning, where a student meets deadlines on their own time. US News

The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. Turtles All the Way Down

Aside from her hardships, the other thing Boori Ma liked to chronicle was easier times. Interpreter of Maladies

She was wearing a wristwatch, a military-looking one that looked rather like a navigator’s chronograph. Nine Stories

Even the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the official keeper of the world’s time and arbiter of all things chronological, planned to be swamped by the revelers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

The first volume dealt with the interval from the Creation to the Flood, a period he took to be 432,000 years or about a hundred times longer than the Old Testament chronology. Cosmos

They watched the hands on the chronometer creep toward seven o’clock, and then from far below came a distant blast of the factory whistle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

They made themselves pay polite attention to the older art, though they both agreed they were more interested in the odd contemporary rooms. Habibi

The rebels had annoyed them with fire from the Roxbury lines; some contretemps had begun amidst the warehouses of the Neck; and, no ground won or lost, two had died. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves

Many of the app’s users appear charmingly unpolished, posting shaky videos that cut their faces off at their foreheads or chins as they deliver breathless extemporaneous monologues. New York Times

“All the principal ingredients were extemporized off the top of my head. It was about a fortnight before I finished telling it to them the first time.” New York Times

As they flew down the last few hundred yards, their eight taut bodies rocked back and forth like pendulums, in perfect synchronicity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Establishing these three calendars required advances in astronomy; synchronizing them required ventures into mathematics. 1491

My breathing falls in time with my mother’s, with the tempo of the waves outside. Dreaming in Cuban

Laleh and I took two days off from school to get over our temporal displacement. Darius the Great Is Not Okay

It was supposed to be a temporary position, but he’s still at it. Thirteen Reasons Why