latter-day

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The majority of its dozen tracks coast along with an agreeable yet lifeless electro-pop groove, with layered voices approximating the earnest and indistinct ballads of latter-day Coldplay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Writing for Defector last year, Barry Petchesky attempted to wrap his head around the unique rankness of the latter-day Trump directive.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 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

The building—all glass, steel, and concrete—was brand-new and so modern in design that to latter-day eyes it would look as if it had been built in the 1970s or 1980s rather than the 1930s.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown