silver age

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. 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
  • Cache Bayou Outfitters geared us up for a 90-minute float beneath the gnarly trees—some of which have held court here for a millennium.
    Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 15 May 2026
  • The land has been inhabited for a millennium by different African groups.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • But this didn't come without some bumps in the road, years after what Pacific Pinball Museum president Larry Zartarian says was the golden age, from the 1940's to the '60's.
    Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • But Collins is not in Cannes simply to reminisce about the golden age of cinema.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Every sort of animal and flower was represented.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The dials are all adorned with a railway minute track that curves around every petal to accentuate the flower’s form.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The two kind of marched together in this heyday of Comedy Central late night television.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 19 May 2026
  • For fans of those cultish works, which had their heyday around the time Refn was growing up and discovering them for himself, Her Private Hell plays like a nostalgic jewel box that literally looks like it was shot inside of a jewel box.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026

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“Silver age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20age. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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