modern

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Yet even as he became a fixture on tour, he understood the need to keep up with the modern game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“So are people that have been obsessing on modern art and modernism all their lives — they’re gonna be confounded by it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“With our modern sensibilities, we might think of love as the point of marriage.”

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

Instead, it belongs to a group related to modern Nautilus, marine animals that have multiple tentacles and a distinctive external shell.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

I reach my row, where a guy—whose hair is longer, prettier, and darker than mine—is folded into the window seat, reading a tattered paperback about modern Indigenous music.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith