modern

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“So are people that have been obsessing on modern art and modernism all their lives — they’re gonna be confounded by it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

“With our modern sensibilities, we might think of love as the point of marriage.”

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

We spent a fabulous hour chatting about how he invented the modern sand wedge and about my golfing hero - Walter Hagen - being a contemporary of his.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Instead, it belongs to a group related to modern Nautilus, marine animals that have multiple tentacles and a distinctive external shell.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

Radar, which has so many uses in modern navigation, didn’t exist in a practical form in the 1930s.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein