as in liberals
a person with very modern ideas
a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world
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Recent Examples of modernists
Conrad Buff was one of the most significant modernists in California who has remained relatively unknown — until now.
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Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
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revolutionaries
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Parts of the movie were adapted from the novel Vineland, and some of the radical groups and revolutionaries were loosely inspired by real-life movements from the 1960s and 1970s.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
21 Dec. 2025
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Sometimes revolutionaries come on the scene, guiding how mathematicians think about a particular field for generations.—
Jordana Cepelewicz,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Modernists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernists. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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