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Her brother, Derek Hough—often positioned as a latter-day Gene Kelley, who has won the most mirrorball trophies in the show’s history—joined the judging panel alongside Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, and head judge Len Goodman (who passed away in 2023).
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2025
In le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, Smiley plays the gentleman detective, investigating a boarding-school murder with the courage and tact of a latter-day Father Brown.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Pinkham is an able and engaging docent on this musical museum tour, in which the 40-year-old core of Chess is used as an ironic vessel for Mayer and Strong’s latter-day arguments about past politics informing present nightmares.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other latter-day realizations of the 8800’s significance in computer history have been chronicled across the tech media landscape in the years since Spectrum’s Altairduino article, below.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2018
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2025
In le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, Smiley plays the gentleman detective, investigating a boarding-school murder with the courage and tact of a latter-day Father Brown.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Pinkham is an able and engaging docent on this musical museum tour, in which the 40-year-old core of Chess is used as an ironic vessel for Mayer and Strong’s latter-day arguments about past politics informing present nightmares.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other latter-day realizations of the 8800’s significance in computer history have been chronicled across the tech media landscape in the years since Spectrum’s Altairduino article, below.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2018
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Dozens of asylum seekers like her, as well as refugees who passed a rigorous, years-long vetting process before being admitted to the United States, have been arrested in Minnesota in recent weeks, immigration lawyers and advocates say.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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And this anniversary Fall/Winter 2026 season was the coldest in recent memory, with thick snow underfoot and bitter winds that felt like -10°C (according to our iPhones).—
Amy O’Brien,
Vogue,
30 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, at Holzweiler, the puffer jacket and the anorak outerwear typical to the brand were paired with snowboots in a tie-up with Norwegian high-tech, performance brand Viking.—
Amy O’Brien,
Vogue,
30 Jan. 2026
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The explosive growth of AI, the proliferation of digital communication, the expansion of high-tech manufacturing, are all electric endeavors.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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As the film shows, the world of mushrooms and mycelium is emerging as a blueprint for futuristic projects in architecture and sustainable fashion.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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And in September, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art—a museum founded by George Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson—will open, offering visitors an experience focused on visual storytelling in a futuristic building designed by Ma Yansong.—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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