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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
For Lei, the piece embodied his fondness for structured fabrics, recalling the sleek modernism of Mary Quant and Pierre Cardin.
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Merging traditional African techniques with Western art principles One artist who is credited with pioneering Nigerian modernism is the sculptor and painter Ben Enwonwu.
—Suyin Haynes, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Cut to a decade later and the co-collaborators have returned to prove that third time’s the charm, with a new furniture and decor capsule merging European modernism with relaxed California living.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Merging traditional African techniques with Western art principles One artist who is credited with pioneering Nigerian modernism is the sculptor and painter Ben Enwonwu.
—Suyin Haynes, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Cut to a decade later and the co-collaborators have returned to prove that third time’s the charm, with a new furniture and decor capsule merging European modernism with relaxed California living.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernism
Noun
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That Xi did not meet Trump until this late in his term is also symbolic.—
Kerry Brown,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Woodward himself will be owed a buyout of more than $6 million, per the terms of his latest contract, unless the sides agree to a settlement.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 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
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Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.—
Stefan Fatsis,
The Atlantic,
13 Sep. 2025
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Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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But there's a strange intimacy to Talk to Me's premise, in which teens act tough by holding a mummified hand, declaring the titular phrase, and inviting one lucky spirit from the other side to inhabit their body.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Very famous phrase, George Washington.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 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
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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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Democratic sources say that the three senators’ decision not to codify collective bargaining rights in writing largely recognized the reality that the college sports market has increasingly come to embrace the concept—if not, the coinage—on its own.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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However, there is precedent for a living president on coinage.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The resulting amalgam of curious thoughts, heartfelt angst, expressions of longing or dread, make for a raw, touching saga shared by dozens of people, all seemingly looking for meaning.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
27 Oct. 2025
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The accompanying image showed Remy sporting an uneven shave and an unmistakably unimpressed expression, which only added to the humor.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 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
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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 2 Nov. 2025.
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