How to Use latter-day in a Sentence
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The tales of their genesis constitute latter-day Greek myths whose gods have bold-faced names like Onassis and Niarchos.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
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First described in 2019, Bajadasaurus wore a mohawk better than any latter-day punk rocker.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
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The couple’s 5-year-old son, Prince Louis, has become a latter-day version of a young Harry, squirming and making faces at solemn occasions.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
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Like Dudamel, Hrůša is youngish by conducting’s standards (at age 41) and telegenic, looking like a latter-day Thomas Schippers.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
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In effect, those dolts have allied themselves with Hamas, a terrorist military cabal hell-bent on a latter-day holocaust.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
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His biggest latter-day singles were collaborations that found success on the country singles charts.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
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About three years ago, results from these latter-day imaging methods clashed violently with the classical neuroanatomy from Penfield’s era.
—Nico U.f. Dosenbach, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
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So, who gets to join the secret society of latter-day Greco-Roman authoritarians?
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
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Halfway through, things get intense, as heavy hand percussion slams into Middle Eastern drumming, fast techno, punishing electro, and even a latter-day remix of one of grime’s founding documents.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 22 Aug. 2023
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Elgar’s 1905 Introduction and Allegro certainly defies latter-day misperceptions of the composer as all stiff upper lip.
—Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
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