SILVER AGES Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

silver ages

noun

plural of silver age

as in salad days

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dark ages

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millennia

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Further excavations at Hattusa could potentially reveal additional fragments and allow researchers to piece together more of this ancient copy of an agreement that helped end generations of conflict more than three millennia ago.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
Socrates used it in Plato’s Phaedrus, more than two millennia before Claude, Perplexity, or the AI-detection tool Pangram existed, to describe writing itself.

— Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

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