latter-day

Definition of latter-daynext

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Recent Examples of latter-day This one feels like something out of a latter-day Curb Your Enthusiasm episode: Tommy wakes up to a waitress delivering room service at their hotel room in Fort Worth, then scares her with his morning wood, leading to another Angela meltdown about nothing. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Dec. 2025 And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes. JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 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 See All Example Sentences for latter-day
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Adjective
  • The administration's most recent budget proposed a 40% cut to the bureau, though Congress eventually enacted less dramatic cuts.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Maresca played a 4-2-3-1 that night, and Brentford have employed a similar formation in their recent games.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Working with Apprenticely, Presley has come up with a plan to train more employees to operate the high-tech machines, so that if one employee is out and a robot crashes, downtime can be minimized.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Its high-tech economy depends on advanced global networks, which are seriously disrupted by wars.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Try out the futuristic aesthetic by contrasting it with a whimsical design as shown on these colorful French tips.
    Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The front end in particular has become a talking point, with its slim headlights and reinterpreted kidney grille attempting to balance retro BMW cues with futuristic EV minimalism.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2026

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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.

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