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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
In the years that followed, American landscape painting was shuffled off to storage to make room for modernism, and paintings like Church’s, with their glassy finishes and profuse detail, came to seem the embodiment of fuddy-duddy.
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Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
In 1939, Galenz had the opportunity to show his work on a global stage as part of the Lebanese Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair; the fair marked a crucial moment in the international visibility of the developing Lebanese modernism movement.
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The Editors Of Artnews,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
The lens widened further to embrace categories of practice not conventionally regarded as art, most prominently, craft; here, too, the art establishment focused on textiles and ceramics engaged with an existing modernism, as opposed to the 1970s focus on regional and communal networks.
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Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
His youngest child, Gertrude Stein, would become a legend, a leading figure of literary modernism, possibly the only female avant-garde writer in the world to have her name up in lights in Times Square.
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Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
13 June 2026
In 1939, Galenz had the opportunity to show his work on a global stage as part of the Lebanese Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair; the fair marked a crucial moment in the international visibility of the developing Lebanese modernism movement.
—
The Editors Of Artnews,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
The lens widened further to embrace categories of practice not conventionally regarded as art, most prominently, craft; here, too, the art establishment focused on textiles and ceramics engaged with an existing modernism, as opposed to the 1970s focus on regional and communal networks.
—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
His youngest child, Gertrude Stein, would become a legend, a leading figure of literary modernism, possibly the only female avant-garde writer in the world to have her name up in lights in Times Square.
—
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernism
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Mysaria is skeptical of the generous terms of surrender that Alicent sets to Rhaenyra.
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Researchers noted a decline in the mortality rate for infants born at full term, at 39 to 40 weeks.
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Are these neologisms diagnosing modern phenomena or illuminating preëxisting cultural realities?
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These neologisms weren’t just clever.
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The exhibit’s title is derived from a Spanish colloquialism.
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Ways to learn a new language Apps are a good way to learn the basics and proper pronunciation, but many colloquialisms, abbreviations and grammatically informal expressions used by fluent or native speakers aren’t taught on apps or in language classes.
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To remove the ambiguity and resulting food waste, Assembly Bill 660 was signed into law and goes into effect July 1, which ultimately will reduce the phrases allowed on packages to just two.
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This is the case for some teams at the World Cup who face a ‘dead-rubber’ game — a phrase used to describe a game that has no consequence – as their third group match.
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The Execution Crisis Defined Rasmus Holst, CEO of Zensai, describes it without euphemism.
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Willmett and Harris are clearly uninterested in euphemisms, so there’s an exaggerated naivety to their lyrics.
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The author, a professor named Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, proved to have a knack not just for provocative legal essays but for coinages, too.
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People have been called pedants since the early modern period—pedante is a fifteenth-century Italian coinage for a professional teacher of Latin literature and rhetoric—but have been acting pedantically for millennia.
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Now in its 38th edition, the annual issue is a record of the highest expressions of craft, ingenuity, creativity, pleasure, and wonder across 15 categories and from around the globe.
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Cancer season brings focus to your creative expression, dating life, hobbies and self-expression.
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Which brings us to the ménage à trois — for some things, only a French loanword will do — between Hayley, Yasmin, and Henry, which exists at the opposite end of the boundary-setting spectrum.
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For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.
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“Modernism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernism. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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