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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
Noun
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Anarchism ushered in by machines, Eden’s exile reversed by robots, a millennium not of the angels but of androids.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Bitcoin is best understood as this millennium’s gold.—
Georgii Verbitskii,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The counterargument Of course, not everyone is buying the golden age narrative.—
Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Film stars from from the silent era (William Gillette) to the golden age of Hollywood (Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman) to now (Paul Dano, The Rock) grew up or settled down in Connecticut.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Her shining brown curls are carefully arranged each morning, tied up with pink ribbon, festooned with flowers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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The site where Pretti was killed, on Nicollet Avenue near 26th Street, was decorated with hundreds of pillar and votive candles and dozens of flower bouquets and signs left by neighbors and mourners by midday Monday.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
27 Jan. 2026
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In its heyday, the exchange’s trading floor set the price of cotton, and the boards that held the blackboards where prices were set remain.—
Jim Halley,
AJC.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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But its status as a bellwether is far from its heyday.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
26 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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