silver age

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 That was its golden age, its silver age, its platinum. Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021 The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021 After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals. Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver age
Noun
  • In due course the informality and loosening of the customs around dressing would take people all the way to grunge and eventually, in the new millennium, put CEOs of multimillion-dollar companies in hoodies.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The India-meets-NYC brand borrows from Burmese women’s sacred and millennia-old beauty regimens, promising numerous skin benefits like brightening, smoothing, and deep-cleaning.
    Abby Dupes, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Neon signs flicker in the evenings and cast a glow that recalls the golden age of California’s coast.
    Pismo Beach Conference, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • These evenings were a chance to feel part of the golden age of ocean travel, when crossing the Atlantic meant dressing to be seen.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At certain angles, the photo’s dark backdrop allows viewers to see the reflection of former President Barack Obama’s portrait that depicts him surrounded by greenery and flowers representing Chicago and Hawaii.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Divide peonies now to get more flowers and more plants with this step-by-step guide.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Stockyards location is a towering, two-story, 11,416-square-foot brick cold-storage warehouse and meat locker that opened in the heyday of the Fort Worth Stockyards cattle market and nearby meat packinghouses.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That night, Mare finds Ned watching old footage of the Truth Teller in its heyday, with the editor running the printing press himself.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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