not modern
Example Sentences
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“Poor construction quality is the primary cause of failure, not modern versus traditional material systems.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 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
However quantum theory was developed at the same time the TV series Downton Abbey takes place, which makes it clear how not modern quantum theory is now.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2020
Modern buildings shed decoration as a way of wiping the historical slate clean; buildings that were explicitly interested in history were, essentially by definition, not modern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
"Do not modern King Arthurs ever choose the wiser course?" she faltered.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
