as in liberal
a person with very modern ideas
an ultramodernist in interior decoration, she freely uses materials that are recognizably man-made to achieve a look that enthusiastically embraces the 21st century
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The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026 -
Her efforts to come to terms with polyamory are couched as a political project—part of being an open-minded liberal—as much as a romantic one.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
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But Viollet-le-Duc was no modernist avant la lettre.—
David A. Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Often, modernists didn’t have a coherent vision of the body so much as a criticism of it.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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Tad’s subjects were the moderns.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Best Midcentury Clock Unexpected red theory meets midcentury-modern in this petite tabletop clock from Seiko.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
6 Mar. 2026
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The game happened to be on November 18th, the anniversary of Haitian revolutionaries defeating the French Army in 1803 before declaring independence.—
Albert Samaha,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2026
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Fidel Castro, either wanting to protect his family’s privacy or maintain the mystique of a revolutionary who only had time for his country, never publicly disclosed the family.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Ultramodernist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ultramodernist. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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