golden age

Definition of golden agenext
as in renaissance
a period of high artistic or cultural development a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood

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Recent Examples of golden age In this golden age of cringe, that earlier art of transgression—with its tense silences, humiliations, and hostile disturbance of the performer-audience relationship—was channeled downstream. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Nearly every single recipe from the Fizz’s golden age takes pains to specify that it should be made very cold, served without ice, and consumed immediately after delivery, an instruction that may seem pedantic but is nonetheless ubiquitous. — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2026 The golden age of detective fiction is generally considered to have been in the 1920s and ’30s. — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 An increase that large would roughly double the sustainable economic growth rate worldwide, ushering in a golden age of prosperity at astonishing speed. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for golden age
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renaissance
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  • This fertile period of creative and intellectual life wasn’t even a renaissance, one partygoer declares.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Acting was his guiding passion, but his deep love for the avant-garde helped till the ground for the city’s theatrical renaissance that the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival catalyzed.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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