modernity
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Groups within it – including pickup artists, men’s rights groups and “involuntary celibate” or “incel” communities – portray themselves as victims of modernity.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Ivorians need to put African heritage first and stop trying to "catch up with Western modernity", he added.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
Yet they were also influential in pushing reggae into modernity, using digital instrumentation on Chaka Demus & Pliers’ 1993 smash “Murder She Wrote” and grafting their textures into the Fugees’ bestselling LP “The Score.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
She is at once guardian angel and angel of death, watching over hallowed ground while carrying a tool of invasive modernity with her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Even in modernity, the ages of darkness were not so far behind us.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing modernity
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