modern
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The modern festival includes a large torchlight procession and a huge street party in Princes Street attended by tens of thousands of people.
From BBC
Producer Jack Antonoff has described making Sabrina Carpenter's Please, Please, Please with physical instruments, played imperfectly, as a reaction to the clinical nature of modern pop.
From BBC
The antique heroes of the 1780s vanish from his work, replaced by the drama of modern French revolutionary martyrs.
Acetaldehyde is an essential chemical building block that plays a major role in modern manufacturing.
From Science Daily
This discovery overcomes a major limitation in modern neuroscience by making it possible to directly observe how neurons receive information.
From Science Daily
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