latter-day
Example Sentences
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Wild original impulses have been replaced by latter-day self-consciousness.
From New York Times
You can get that by holding public agencies accountable for doing right by everyone, not by fleeing into a world where we cede policing in retail districts to latter-day Pinkertons.
From Seattle Times
Or that a latter-day review of cases found that 10 out of 36 autopsies began on bodies whose hearts were still beating?
From Washington Post
Ellis, whose uproarious essays call to mind the warm, brassy and amused tone of a latter-day Erma Bombeck, here celebrates middle-aged female friendship.
From New York Times
Within 10 days of the Portland’s arrival, more than 1,500 latter-day argonauts headed north.
From Seattle Times
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