modernity

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Recent Examples of modernity As Native Americans traveled to Britain, and as the figure of the Native American was circulated and remediated via transatlantic print, performance, and visual culture, Native Americans became active participants in—not merely subjects of—transatlantic modernity. Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025 The world’s news cameras and column inches have since been trained on the Vatican, analyzing the complex legacy of the man who had been tasked with bringing a dose of modernity to Catholicism. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025 The second phrase denoted the idea that a non-Western country could adopt some of the frameworks of Western modernity—such as particular kinds of military technology or constitutional and legal reforms—without sacrificing its authentic cultural self. Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025 In the 20th century, automobiles defined modernity. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for modernity
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currency
Noun
  • Cryptocurrency Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a bill, dubbed the GENIUS Act, that would have introduced some regulations on stablecoins, or digital currencies that are pegged to the value of a specific asset.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • Several analysts cited these development as contributing to bitcoin’s latest price gains, but emphasized that other causes helped drive the digital currency higher.
    Charles Lloyd Bovaird II, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

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