not modern
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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
Ema’s passion is street dance, not modern — reggaeton to be specific — which she indulges in with her uber-hip and slightly menacing girl gang of friends from the dance company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
The doctrine, therefore, that volcanoes are safety-valves, and that the subterranean convulsions are probably most violent when first the volcanic energy shifts itself to a new quarter, is not modern.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
