not modern
Example Sentences
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The article spinner that hit MSN is mere decades-old computer wrangling, not modern machine learning.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
But even if not, modern diesel locomotives haul far more people with fewer emissions than conventional cars or airliners.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023
She has stuck to a small coterie of designers and brands who are contemporary but not modern, conservative but not old-fashioned, like Markarian, Gabriela Hearst and Brandon Maxwell.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023
Modern buildings shed decoration as a way of wiping the historical slate clean; buildings that were explicitly interested in history were, essentially by definition, not modern.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2016
Though the Suez Canal is an achievement of modern times, yet the idea is not modern, nor indeed the first execution.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
