modern

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“At the same time as architectural homes are being marketed as high-end, collectible art, others are being torn down to build new,” midcentury modern architecture expert Adriene Biondo said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Manipulating light at extremely small scales is key to advancing modern technology.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Peter Rona, an Oxford-based economist and former candidate for president of Hungary, describes a meeting in the early 1990s, at which Orbán said he wanted to create a "modern conservative party".

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

I see flashes of modern neo-noirs like Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons,” and the cold but still realistic otherworldliness in David Cronenberg’s “Dead Ringers” and “The Shrouds,” filtered through a silly, gay “Single White Female’ lens.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Looking around the busy streets with their modern buildings, I thought Mamá would be enamored of this place.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall