Definitions
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- adjective Belonging to present or recent times; modern.
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- adjective
modern ,recent .
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Examples
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Lampooning the foibles of the English class system as well as clerics, politicians and even other artists, Mr. Searle was often described as a latter-day version of the 18th-century British graphic satirist William Hogarth.
NYT > Home Page By STEVEN HELLER 2012
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She is opposed by local fascists, latter-day Nazis who are resurgent in a Hungary.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2011
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Both directed by a guy best known in some circles for a movie about an old boat that sank and some other picture about a planet filled with nine-foot tall blue people, T2 and Aliens stand in very sharp contrast to latter-day action flicks.
William Bradley: T2 and Aliens Anniversaries Point Up the Problems With Today's Action Movies William Bradley 2011
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Obama's "latter-day support" of these Bush-era decisions, he asserts, "are the correct ones."
New Details Revealed From Rumsfeld's Memoir Marcus Baram 2011
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Both directed by a guy best known in some circles for a movie about an old boat that sank and some other picture about a planet filled with nine-foot tall blue people, T2 and Aliens stand in very sharp contrast to latter-day action flicks.
William Bradley: T2 and Aliens Anniversaries Point Up the Problems With Today's Action Movies William Bradley 2011
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She is opposed by local fascists, latter-day Nazis who are resurgent in a Hungary.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2011
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Among the real rarities in the festival's "Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses" sidebar, which is devoted to popular films made by Japan's Nikkatsu studio, this 1985 drama mixes softcore eroticism with a gaudy neon color scheme to create a melancholy, latter-day noir.
Repertory Film: A Final Festival Feast Steve Dollar 2011
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Clearly Kris is a man suffering from the pernicious ravages of Damsel in Distress Syndrome, a latter-day Galahad — at least, I thought so, until I took a look at his other postcard.
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Italy's premier marketplace for crèche makings is the Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, where artisans offer figurines portraying not only the obvious biblical subjects but also latter-day personalities from the worlds of culture, sport and politics.
Playing the Name Game in Italy Francis X. Rocca 2011
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Both directed by a guy best known in some circles for a movie about an old boat that sank and some other picture about a planet filled with nine-foot tall blue people, T2 and Aliens stand in very sharp contrast to latter-day action flicks.
William Bradley: T2 and Aliens Anniversaries Point Up the Problems With Today's Action Movies William Bradley 2011
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