as in new
being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles
this hairstyle is absolutely the most modern fashion out there
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as in liberal
a person with very modern ideas
the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place
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Recent Examples of modern
Harvard Business Review, 23 Oct. 2025
Offscreen, the Lis, who play badminton together and have been known to walk down the street holding hands, initially agreed to participate in a documentary about modern love.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Austin’s home is tastefully mid-century modern in design and furnishing, but Giménez made sure these were as hollow as the character ends up being himself.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 31 July 2025
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Adjective
The Wall Street crash of 1929 is widely regarded as the definitive stock-market collapse of modern times.
—Harvard Business Review, 23 Oct. 2025
Offscreen, the Lis, who play badminton together and have been known to walk down the street holding hands, initially agreed to participate in a documentary about modern love.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
With its heartfelt commitment to the modern and the historic, Casa Carolina feels like Cartagena itself, storied and sage, yet very much still vibrant and alive.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Austin’s home is tastefully mid-century modern in design and furnishing, but Giménez made sure these were as hollow as the character ends up being himself.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modern
Adjective
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Meanwhile, aging aircraft fleets and a wave of retirements have created an urgent demand for new technicians.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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In this new study featuring more than 1,000 participants at 244 sites in 17 countries, patients received either enzalutamide plus leuprolide (the combination group), leuprolide (the leuprolide-alone group), or enzalutamide monotherapy (the monotherapy group).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Oct. 2025
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Even John Stuart Mill, the model nineteenth-century liberal and a feminist, did not think that Indians in British India were ready for free speech.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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Navratilova is known as a highly outspoken liberal as a former athlete.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This article is part of a wider series in partnership with Football Manager 26, which looks at the strengths and weaknesses of famous historical and contemporary tactics.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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But while an excellent hook for contemporary stagings of the play, this kind of parallel has limitations.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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Jacques Wei Jacques Wei brought a slice of 1980s Paris to Shanghai with a show set at Yangtze Hotel — a 1930s architecture marvel with grand modernist wall carvings against Chinese gateways, a mix-and-match glamour that has come to define the vitality of the five-year-old brand.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
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The new 146,000-square-foot complex of nine interlocking modernist pavilions, built on the site of the former building that was demolished in 2021, almost doubles the museum’s size.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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When Allswell first launched, it was positioned as a stylish, affordable alternative to big-name mattress brands.—
Rebecca Grambone,
Architectural Digest,
20 Oct. 2025
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Olivia Culpo, wife of San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey and mother of their 4-month-old daughter Colette, balanced a comfy and stylish game day ‘fit with pumping gear, and, by her own admission, a wild hangover while watching her husband’s team triumph over the Atlanta Falcons.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Most of the records on the Haitian revolution were written by people who opposed the revolutionaries.—
Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These jeans are fashionable and comfortable enough to take me from the airport terminal straight to the office.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2025
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Choose between three fashionable colors, or go with the sophisticated floral print.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Billups was arrested less than nine hours after Portland’s season-opening season-opening loss at home, a game notably attended by the team’s current owner and a financier in the process of buying the franchise.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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But current technologies like micro-LEDs hit a limit when pixels shrink below one micrometer.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Modern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modern. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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