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a way of saying something that is particular to the present day; a modern speech form
modernisms like "blog" and "life hack"
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Recent Examples of modernism
Cut to a decade later and the co-collaborators have returned to prove that third time’s the charm, with a new furniture and decor capsule merging European modernism with relaxed California living.
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Listed for $39 million, the residence is a stylish ode to mid-century modernism, with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across 7,356 square feet.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
In a world that’s increasingly automated and digital, many are moving away from cold, clinical modernism, yearning for spaces that feel tactile and human.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
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Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Listed for $39 million, the residence is a stylish ode to mid-century modernism, with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across 7,356 square feet.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
In a world that’s increasingly automated and digital, many are moving away from cold, clinical modernism, yearning for spaces that feel tactile and human.
—Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernism
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Council members are permitted two honorary street name changes in a four-year term, and the former District 4 council member Monica Montgomery Steppe had already used hers when Harris brought the proposal forward.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Financial terms were not disclosed.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Written over a period of seventeen years, the novel was composed in an idiosyncratic style that blended standard English with neologisms and puns in multiple languages.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Gibbs encountered the phrase while reading Open Water by British writer Caleb Azumah Nelson, whose reflections on Blackness, love, and fatherhood echoed Gibbs’s own story.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
10 Oct. 2025
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Also, there is a cue card with some sort of possible Latin phrases that Lithgow's Dumbledore may be speaking.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Germany teaches the Holocaust without euphemism, South Africa memorializes apartheid, and Rwanda preserves memory of genocide — nations gain respect by confronting their darkest chapters, not avoiding them.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
27 Aug. 2025
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Sometimes, this stems from their opinion that the supposedly tactful replacements for the R-word are equally if not more offensive — a classic example of the euphemism treadmill in practice.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Democratic sources say that the three senators’ decision not to codify collective bargaining rights in writing largely recognized the reality that the college sports market has increasingly come to embrace the concept—if not, the coinage—on its own.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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However, there is precedent for a living president on coinage.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Together, their 33-piece collection is an expression of two Sohos, built around ideas of Americana, prep, and sport but anchored in traditional British flair; in short, the perfect fall capsule.—
Kristina Rutkowski,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
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Bain said that this anxiety can cause both physical and emotional signs, with vocalization being one of the most-common outward expressions of distress.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Apr. 2025
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The newest dictionary additions include loanwords from Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland.—
Peter Guo,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Modernism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernism. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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