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Recent Examples of silver age
To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey.
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Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
That was its golden age, its silver age, its platinum.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals.
—Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
That was its golden age, its silver age, its platinum.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 10 Nov. 2021
The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals.
—Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver age
Noun
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Humanity’s oldest epic is a doomed quest for immortality: Around four millenniums ago, the Sumerians told of a Mesopotamian king named Gilgamesh who set out to find life everlasting and briefly located a youth-restoring plant, only to lose it on his way home.—
Joe Kloc,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The country’s links to the island—home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom are Inuit—stretch back centuries: Norse settlers arrived in the territory over a millennium ago before eventually disappearing, and Denmark began colonizing the island in the 1700s.—
Sara Dorn,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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When considering only traditional musicals with non-diegetic music, this last occurred during the golden age of musicals in the 1960s.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Son called the investment the beginning of the golden age.—
Caitlyn Frolo,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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He was seen standing in the middle of the ranch with his arms raised holding a bunch of flowers in one hand.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Gardeners are eager to try their hands at growing their own flowers, too, in a cutting garden, and many types of flowers can be grown easily from seed.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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Watch on Deadline Full of often astonishing footage and sounds of the ‘Family Affair’ superstar and his band in their heyday, Sly Lives!—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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The resort has a rustic charm, a nod to the town’s heyday in the early 1900s.—
Jennifer Broome,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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