modernism

as in term
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Recent Examples of modernism Nostalgia seems to have been replaced by modernism at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurants. Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025 Other rooms offer comfort paired with modernism and bone-chilling views. Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2025 The combo of a white tank top and jeans always looks crisp, and with brown boots the whole ensemble becomes a lesson in clean modernism. Alex Sales, Glamour, 29 June 2025 A lot of the spiritual history wasn't, uh, kind of scrubbed away in with modernism and with certain contemporary laws. Outside Online, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for modernism
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Noun
  • By integrating tariff data with sales performance, market trends, and regulatory frameworks, Rensi can pinpoint inefficiencies, detect policy misalignments, and recommend corrective actions—ranging from renegotiating supplier terms to adjusting pricing strategies.
    Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In his second term, states’ rights, once a rallying cry for conservatives, are under pressure.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 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
  • Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • Yet the sudden ubiquity of this phrase also reveals the extraordinary pressure the young-adult generation feels to decipher a puzzle-like economy that barely rewards their best efforts.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The phrases were used across a range of merchandise like a Tiger Blood energy drink, a biographical comic book and other items, per the outlet.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 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
  • 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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  • The Saint-Gaudens design of Lady Liberty with torch and olive branch is arguably the most iconic US coinage ever struck, with the eagle on the reverse a masterstroke of neoclassical style.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There were a few coinages in the script, but 90 percent of the language is real.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
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  • Scientists speculate that this could be an expression of mourning or an instinctual effort to understand the loss.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Scorn is a salve for her—an enjoyable expression of her fastidious nature and a coping strategy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 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
  • 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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