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Recent Examples of modernity
The Big Bang represents a revolution in watchmaking, a perfect union of tradition and modernity.
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Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
This is a place where history and modernity intertwine, where tradition informs innovation, and where the future of Danish food and wine is being written in the soil.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
These names carry a timeless quality and are seen as versatile, offering a balance between tradition and modernity.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 13 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, their blurring of genres, their fusion of architecture, art, and media, is part of a postmodernism that today has precious little purchase left on capitalist modernity—indeed, that fronts for that modernity as much as anything else.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
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Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
This is a place where history and modernity intertwine, where tradition informs innovation, and where the future of Danish food and wine is being written in the soil.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
These names carry a timeless quality and are seen as versatile, offering a balance between tradition and modernity.
—Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 13 Mar. 2025
On the one hand, their blurring of genres, their fusion of architecture, art, and media, is part of a postmodernism that today has precious little purchase left on capitalist modernity—indeed, that fronts for that modernity as much as anything else.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for modernity
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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In reaction, investors are bolstering their portfolio defenses, diversifying assets away from the U.S., adding to short-term Treasurys, stocking up on gold and seeking currency hedges amid fear that the risk for both the economy and the stock market is to the downside.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Modernity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernity. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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