latter-day

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Recent Examples of latter-day Fister, meanwhile, turned into a strikeout machine, and well, a latter-day Alexander, with an 11.4 K/BB ratio and a 1.79 ERA in 11 starts. Ryan Ford, Freep.com, 29 July 2025 More magic came from co-producer Brian Eno, currently in the midst of his own latter-day renaissance (recently, two collaborative LPs with Beatie Wolf and a perpetually-shapeshifting career documentary, Eno). Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2025 Ozzy Osbourne, a founding father of British heavy metal, a latter-day solo star and a new-millennium reality TV luminary, died Tuesday after a yearslong struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Chris Morris, Variety, 22 July 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. Rav Grewal-Kök june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for latter-day
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Adjective
  • Top-tier academic journals such as Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet have published reams of research funded by the Chinese Communist Party in recent years, a Washington Examiner review found.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Data from the popular online real estate marketplace Zillow, which tracks an estimated market value of homes in a specific area, also shows a dramatic market value increase of Platte County homes in recent years.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Why not sign up for a Watsu water massage or a high-tech facial?
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Glitches to computers and high-tech equipment might occur.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The shoe manages to look both retro and futuristic at the same time through its distorted 2000s design language.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In May this author revealed that the designer in charge of it is Zach Riddley, famous for his work on his work on Disney’s futuristic Epcot park in Orlando, Florida.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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