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Midway through “Marcel Duchamp”—the Museum of Modern Art’s sweeping, chronological survey of the artist it calls “one of the most important figures in modern culture”—you first encounter what Duchamp labelled as his “Readymades.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

He had labelled the Iranian counter to US proposals "totally unacceptable".

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Tusk's government labelled the initiative "unrealistic" as the central bank faces financial losses.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Prison officer Simon Rothwell, who said he was stationed on the same wing as Watkins for about 10 years, labelled him as "vulnerable" because other prisoners "knew he had money".

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Each of these arguments, of course, has become part of a larger intellectual movement which may loosely be labelled ‘postmodernism’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton