modern

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Such a shift is vital at this moment in history, when so much of modern life is designed to ask almost nothing of us.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

"The connection that he has with the club and the fans is something that you rarely see in modern football. He lives for Atletico Madrid."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“The modern view,” Mr. Sidebottom writes, “is to doubt its historical accuracy. It is a scholarly orthodoxy that the salute was no more than a one-off impromptu acclamation that went very wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Feasibility studies have already been conducted by federal agencies to assess whether a modern correctional facility could be established on the site, though no final decision has been made.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

When the United States declared war, it had a large and modern navy but a small, poorly equipped army, only the seventeenth largest in the world.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman