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Her brother, Derek Hough—often positioned as a latter-day Gene Kelley, who has won the most mirrorball trophies in the show’s history—joined the judging panel alongside Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, and head judge Len Goodman (who passed away in 2023).
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2025
In le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, Smiley plays the gentleman detective, investigating a boarding-school murder with the courage and tact of a latter-day Father Brown.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 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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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2025
In le Carré’s second novel, A Murder of Quality, Smiley plays the gentleman detective, investigating a boarding-school murder with the courage and tact of a latter-day Father Brown.
—Literary Hub, 16 June 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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The Amazon-like company has been subjected to a number of investigations, raids, and inspections initiated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the country’s primary antitrust regulator, in recent years.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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Takaichi’s approval ratings are strikingly high, ranging from more than 50% to over 80% for people in their 20s in some polls, levels unseen in years and the envy of recent prime ministers.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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In one space, costumes can be custom printed and cut using high-tech printers, while another space houses a room full of sewing machines where costumers spend 80 hours crafting an intricate fur-pattern cape with fringes and sequins.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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Most of Klein’s offices at the time were designed by Joe D’Urso, who was best known for his philosophy of high-tech minimalism, which brought industrial materials into non-industrial spaces.—
Mekita Rivas,
Architectural Digest,
12 Feb. 2026
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The big rig has a panoramic, wraparound windshield providing exceptional visibility and a futuristic appearance.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Their remit is futuristic, but their procedures recall the freewheeling social science of the Stanford prison experiment or Stanley Milgram’s shock treatments.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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