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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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The Amazon-like company has been subjected to a number of investigations, raids, and inspections initiated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the country’s primary antitrust regulator, in recent years.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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Takaichi’s approval ratings are strikingly high, ranging from more than 50% to over 80% for people in their 20s in some polls, levels unseen in years and the envy of recent prime ministers.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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To pinpoint the silk’s secret, an interdisciplinary team used a high-tech toolkit that included AlphaFold3 modeling, molecular simulations, and NMR spectroscopy.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Fox News Digital also obtained a statement indicating that the pilot of the county’s high-tech search aircraft had been disciplined following a dispute with Nanos and reassigned to street patrol, according to local law enforcement sources.—
Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Epcot, Disney World’s second park, debuts with futuristic and international themes.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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The country built some of the world’s most futuristic highways and was early in eradicating malaria.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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