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Recent Examples of latter-day
The Harlem Renaissance inspired Jazz Age references, such as fka Twigs’s Wales Bonner dress, while the ’30s more broadly were an inspiration for Madonna who reprised her role as a latter-day Marlene Dietrich.
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Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 May 2025
Norton, May 13 Image What Will People Think? by Sara Hamdan
Like a latter-day Mrs. Maisel, the heroine of this debut novel tries to keep her stand-up comedy aspirations a secret from her tradition-minded family.
—John Cassidy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
This was amplified by the arriviste drive of Lebedev the younger, who set on London society like a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
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Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 May 2025
Norton, May 13 Image What Will People Think? by Sara Hamdan
Like a latter-day Mrs. Maisel, the heroine of this debut novel tries to keep her stand-up comedy aspirations a secret from her tradition-minded family.
—John Cassidy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
This was amplified by the arriviste drive of Lebedev the younger, who set on London society like a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latter-day
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The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that recent ICE operations in the south state resulted in the arrest of 118 people, including five individuals the agency identified as gang members.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2025
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That’s left a glut of overqualified workers competing for jobs that otherwise might have gone to recent graduates.—
Ben Kesslen,
Quartz,
8 June 2025
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These futuristic machines harness the strange properties of quantum mechanics to perform specific types of calculations exponentially faster than even the most powerful supercomputers.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The film feels very current, even futuristic at times — like the appearance of what looks like a Tesla Cybertruck.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2025
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latter-day. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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