latter-day

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Mangione has been hailed in some quarters of the internet as a latter-day Robin Hood, fighting against a rigged system on behalf of working people.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Writing for Defector last year, Barry Petchesky attempted to wrap his head around the unique rankness of the latter-day Trump directive.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

One of the greatest operas of our time, John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic,” contemplates the creation of nuclear weapons as the functioning of a latter-day Faust, Goethe’s most lasting creation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Ferrari doesn’t exactly bill it as a latter-day Daytona—maybe because the company used that name on another recent model—but it is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

American independence became his ministerial calling, a mission he pursued with all the compressed energy of a latter-day Puritan pastor whose congregation was the American people.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis