modern
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The workers have carefully recreated this indigenous mortar, once widely used in the Mughal era, but now largely replaced by cement in modern construction.
From BBC
Galsworthy’s heroes represent the way new money can be trapped between stifling tradition and modern realities, but our social boundaries are constantly shifting.
From Salon
Bell Labs, the legendary research-and-development organization, created foundational innovations like transistors that pervade the modern world.
Paired with modern airborne methods, the old maps can help target and reduce the cost of subsurface mapping—especially due to the difficulty and expense of operating in modern-day Congo.
The Sun delivers an immense amount of energy to Earth every moment, yet modern solar cells capture only a small share of it.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
