How to Use modern-day in a Sentence

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• But modern-day wellness influencers aren’t the first ones to have sung the praises of the goji berry.
  — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 5 July 2024
• Mario may be a modern-day Mickey Mouse but his kingdom is on the console.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• The advice is witty and worldly (think: a modern-day Auntie Mame).
  — wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• What's more, curly perms aren’t a modern-day phenomenon by any means.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 13 Aug. 2024
• The piece, known as the Howling Wolf, featured the animal stenciled in black paint on a white satellite dish, which served as a modern-day stand-in for a full moon.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
• Nation/World Updated: 10 hours ago It is revered as a modern-day musket.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The mountain chalet lodging reflects the property's historic roots with a modern-day spin.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
• To build the model with dimorphism, the team followed the size differences of alligators, the T. rex’s modern-day kin.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
• Swim bladders that control buoyancy in modern-day fish are thought to have evolved from the lungs of ancient ancestors.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung's new spin offers a modern-day take on the disaster tale.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 July 2024
• But eight months of brutal trench warfare have transformed Bakhmut from an obscure mining city into a modern-day Stalingrad whose fate could shape the course of the war.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Next to each of Angel’s drawings, Oriol puts a modern-day twist on the signals by taking photos of Latinas mirroring the twins.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• While at first glance the wisdom of past ages shouldn’t apply directly to the problems of modern-day tech startup founders, this is not necessarily the case.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• That's because the people of this Midwestern city have created a modern-day welcome wagon.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 4 July 2024
• Retelling a classic novel can sometimes mean imbuing it with modern-day issues.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• The story revolves around a modern-day criminal profiler, who stumbles upon an old walkie-talkie that connects him to a police officer from the late 1980s.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
• From harrowing recreations of world wars to sobering modern-day documentaries, Netflix has all manner of war films.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2024
• The modern-day concept packs a hydrogen-electric drivetrain that produces nearly 700 hp.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 5 July 2024
• Scientists included three Neanderthal genomes in the tree and one Denisovan, which previous researchers had found to contain slightly more ape-like genes than modern-day humans.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the massacre, when a man carrying an arsenal of weapons walked into a McDonald’s in San Ysidro and shot 40 people, in what’s now widely regarded as one of the country’s first modern-day mass shootings.
  — Jerry Wu, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• The case illustrates how Mexican cartels not only profit by blanketing the U.S. with drugs, but by smuggling humans and forcing them into modern-day slavery.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
• Unlike recent former presidents, Trump went from president to a civilian, and back to a presidential candidate as the first modern-day former president to run for president again not as the incumbent.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 July 2024
• That is, until defense contractor Lockheed noticed it and had his works translated into English; Ufimtsev’s work became the basis for modern-day stealth technology.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• The religious holiday begins 10 to 12 days earlier each year since the Muslim calendar is shorter than the modern-day Gregorian calendar.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• From simple tricks to tried-and-tested methods, these retro cleaning tips provide a window into a bygone era while delivering practical solutions for modern-day homeowners.
  — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2024
• Bolstered by Kravitz’s rollicking strings, the Atlanta rapper’s attempt at hijacking a classic proves successful, as this modern-day version is a fitting compliment to its predecessor.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• Prepper: Survivalists and preppers are interchangeable, but the modern-day prepper might be ever-prepared for a doomsday event, natural disaster, or civil unrest.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2023
• Whether on Instagram or CNN, analysts (professional and self-appointed) behave like modern-day soothsayers, peering at the tea leaves of polls, social media, video clips and the general zeitgeist to utter words of prophecy and, increasingly, doom.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
• While the sponging industry has diminished over the years (largely because most modern-day consumers use artificial versions for dish scrubbing and housecleaning), there’s still a considerable market for the natural ones, especially in Europe.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024