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
  • The affair kicked off The Return of Automatic Slim Tour, presented by the Dallas native to commemorate the 25th anniversary of her new-millennium release Mama’s Gun.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But there have literally been billions of people over the past two millennia who would have liked to know this.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This was not what some people would later call the golden age of television.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same people who had contributed to pre-revolution Iran’s golden age of entertainment.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Take hydrangeas, a happy flower millions of years old that grows well in soil but wilts quickly when cut.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Theetge said police arrested a 17-year-old male who buried a gun inside a flower box nearby.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The conservative desire to return to an earlier heyday—one that is rustic, masculine, and rugged, rather than soft, feminine, and urban—is ancient.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Finding bar owners from the heyday of lesbian nightlife was tricky, as many have moved away or died.
    Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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