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Recent Examples of modernity
Such free-floating opportunities for reinvention are perhaps a defining experience of modernity.
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Jen Rose Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
Vending machines and many other markers of modernity are still banned in historic Tsumago, one of the best preserved of all the Edo Period towns.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
As modernity opened new scientific fronts, approaches to the theorem also evolved.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
What ensued were playful looks which were injected with a hint of modernity.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Feb. 2025
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Jen Rose Smith, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
Vending machines and many other markers of modernity are still banned in historic Tsumago, one of the best preserved of all the Edo Period towns.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
As modernity opened new scientific fronts, approaches to the theorem also evolved.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
What ensued were playful looks which were injected with a hint of modernity.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for modernity
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“Modernity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/modernity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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