modern
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Thus the modern welfare state, erected more or less over the past century, to save those who might fall too far, to stop their descent, to see if it can be reversed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
If you asked me to name the greatest piece of modern food media, I would hesitate.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
My friend Susan Slotnick taught modern dance to incarcerated men inside New York state prisons for over 20 years.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Surveys suggest that many do find this modern phenomenon - known as loudcasting, sodcasting, or headphone dodging - similarly frustrating.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Radar, which has so many uses in modern navigation, didn’t exist in a practical form in the 1930s.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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