modern
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Long before modern professional police forces, public order depended on watches, constables, alarms, and forms of compelled or expected community response.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
A list of the many Democrats he helped elect — among them Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer — reads like a scroll of modern California history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Pogacar stands alone in modern cycling—and in rare company in more than a century of history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“As more people came, food influence evolved and mixed; rural and urban food traditions, tastes and trends merged into the modern era.”
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
Others had modern laboratories that made meat, eggs, and milk without any animals at all.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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