modern
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Personally, Lynch loved modern architecture, and experienced love at first sight with the home he purchased in the mid-’80s in the Hollywood Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“How hokey,” you might say, “a modern princess trapped in a luxury high-rise.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The strike group twice enacted the most effective naval blockade in modern history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Many of Lenin’s modern ideals stayed in place as Josef Stalin first took over leadership of the USSR.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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