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moderns

noun

plural of modern

as in liberals

a person with very modern ideas the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place

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Recent Examples of moderns Today, supposedly sophisticated moderns have laundered Moloch’s dark faith into militarism, imperialism, and capitalism. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 Tad’s subjects were the moderns. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026

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Dadiba Pundole, whose Mumbai gallery represented several leading Indian modernists during their lifetimes, estimates that as many as one in 10 modern artworks sold privately in India could be fake.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Across four days and 13 concerts, Salonen threaded his contemporaries, neglected Italian modernists, Lutoslawski and Ligeti, Stravinsky with his own works into Ojai’s alfresco soundscape of birdsong, film screenings and experiments.

— Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026

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Centrist Democrats are not socialists, not revolutionaries, and not disposed to blame Zionist conspiracies for every trouble in American life, including police brutality and urban gentrification.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2026
To make matters worse, ten days later, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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