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Recent Examples of latter-day
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco psychedelic band’s many latter-day offshoots for more than half a century, has died after a long battle with cancer and lung issues, according to a social media post from his family.
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Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Pinkham is an able and engaging docent on this musical museum tour, in which the 40-year-old core of Chess is used as an ironic vessel for Mayer and Strong’s latter-day arguments about past politics informing present nightmares.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other latter-day realizations of the 8800’s significance in computer history have been chronicled across the tech media landscape in the years since Spectrum’s Altairduino article, below.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2018
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Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Jan. 2026
And a lot of the pseudepigrapha, like the fake gospels and fake apocalypses, fill in gaps in the record that can serve latter-day, post-biblical purposes.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
Pinkham is an able and engaging docent on this musical museum tour, in which the 40-year-old core of Chess is used as an ironic vessel for Mayer and Strong’s latter-day arguments about past politics informing present nightmares.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other latter-day realizations of the 8800’s significance in computer history have been chronicled across the tech media landscape in the years since Spectrum’s Altairduino article, below.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latter-day
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This means that filmmakers out of favor with autocratic regimes—including, in Iran, some of the nation’s greatest artists—don’t stand a chance, and some of the most notable recent Iranian films have been submitted by other countries.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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The situation mirrors a recent case in Sweetwater, where hundreds of families were also displaced under similar terms, with financial incentives decreasing the longer residents wait to leave.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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This device is a high-tech centrifuge that simulates microgravity by spinning vials with samples around two axes, effectively confusing the cells inside as to their position in space.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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The video features a high-tech heist, a high-speed truck chase and a large explosion of Cheetos dust.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Other musts in the cocooning space are the 90-minute full-body scrub with Sicilian raw sea salt, sweet fennel and rosemary in the hammam, the futuristic energy hack with PEMF, hypervolt and LED face masks, and body toning sessions using Biologique Recherche.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Italian piazzas are covered by retractable, UV-filtering canopies, deployed each morning like futuristic umbrellas against an invisible downpour.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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