latter-day
Example Sentences
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Mangione has been hailed in some quarters of the internet as a latter-day Robin Hood, fighting against a rigged system on behalf of working people.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Pursuing a latter-day version will do no better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
Bespectacled, with long hair and a beard and moustache, he seems more like a latter-day hippy than a tech whizz, and he is clearly proud as he shows me around his firm.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
But the Colonel who came to light through Guralnick’s latter-day research defied such easy characterization.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025
American independence became his ministerial calling, a mission he pursued with all the compressed energy of a latter-day Puritan pastor whose congregation was the American people.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
