not modern
Example Sentences
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“Poor construction quality is the primary cause of failure, not modern versus traditional material systems.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023
The article spinner that hit MSN is mere decades-old computer wrangling, not modern machine learning.
From Scientific American • Sep. 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
Large nests of buildings in the middle distance are always beautiful, when drawn carefully, provided they are not modern rows of pattern cottages, or villas with Ionic and Doric porticoes.
From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John
