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modern

[mod-ern] / ˈmɒd ərn /


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Then-Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist, began treating homicides as a public-health epidemic—mapping violence patterns to deploy police and social programs, a precursor to modern data-driven policing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

Stock markets perform an essential task in modern economies by allocating capital where it’s needed, and reducing it where it isn’t.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

Yet the uncomfortable truth at the heart of modern Batson jurisprudence is that although it identified the disease, it has never found an effective cure.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2026

Chamoy has been used by a lot of modern day food makers and chefs with American nostalgic candies, like peach rings and gummy worms, and my personal favorite, Gushers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

He believed that the modern world owed its entire existence to ancient farms, when early humans first started growing their food.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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