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Recent Examples of silver age
During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles.
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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
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
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Basel began cranking out world-changing cultural discourse a good half a millennium before the art fairs arrived.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
20 Mar. 2026
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Pairing their Tiny Desk set with four new songs, the album was accompanied by a short film that turned them into grotesque cartoons of themselves, alternating between looksmaxxing and airbrushed, doll-like looks reminiscent of the Backstreet Boys’ turn-of-the-millennium aesthetic.—
Maria Nenet Barrios,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Then came this golden age of basic cable TV – and that blew up.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
19 Mar. 2026
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Music serves as both storytelling engine and cultural connective tissue, drawing on the golden age of Cantopop alongside the global reach of modern K-pop.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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Advocates contend the findings reveal troubling conditions behind an industry that supplies plants and flowers to major retailers across the country.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Come morning, make a beeline for pastries by renowned chef Cédric Grolet–from cake-sized cinnamon rolls to sculptural waffle flowers and fresh-out-the-oven viennoiseries.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Raceway, which operated from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, featured a quarter-mile track at the Wally Smith farm, a mile-and-a-half west of town on Route 34 that was drawing three times the village’s total population for races during its heyday, local historians have said.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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During the heyday of OpenBiome, some insurers covered the procedure.—
Eric Boodman,
STAT,
23 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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