modernist 1 of 2

noun

Definition of modernistnext
as in liberal
a person with very modern ideas a time when Paris was the center of the universe for modernists in the art world

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modernist

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adjective

as in modern

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  1. liberal
  2. modern
  3. revolutionary
  4. contemporary
  5. ultramodern
  6. present-day
  7. current
  8. newfangled
Noun
  • Read More: Kremlin Confirms Trump Sent Putin COVID-19 Tests While President In June 1999, American officials got a glimpse of what worried Russian liberals so much thanks to the Kosovo War.
    Stephan Kieninger / Made by History, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Ninety-six percent of liberal likely voters support Harris, vs. 91% of liberals overall.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of liberal
Adjective
  • The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of modern
Noun
  • In the beginning after Fidel took power, Cubans fled the country thinking their exile would be a temporary one, that surely the actions of a few hundred revolutionaries wouldn’t stand and the revolution would fall.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • On that day in 1868, Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his family’s enslaved laborers and announced the beginning of an uprising against Spanish rule.
    Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of revolutionary
Adjective
  • The film tells the story of Manish Chauhan, who was tutored by an Israeli dance instructor and went on to perform with a contemporary company in New York.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But lo, even with the Honorable Anna J. Brown presiding having prevented 12 citizens good and true from seeing the boys stand before them in contemporary cowboy attire, Ammon and Ryan were acquitted on all counts.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of contemporary
Adjective
  • The eerie outdoor lighting and ultramodern production design create a memorable environment that should be serene and is instead wonderfully disrupted.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Futuristic Mobile Capsule Smart Home Light pours into this ultramodern aluminum capsule home through the floor-to-ceiling windows on both ends.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2024
Definition of ultramodern
Adjective
  • There’s also a present-day Black family (Nicholas Pinnock, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Cache Vanderpuye) navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There was no present-day portrayal of infertility, IVF or surrogacy in any of 2023’s top 100 films.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of present-day
Adjective
  • In October, Trump’s team asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate after a senior Labour figure posted a rallying cry for current and former staffers to travel to battleground states and campaign for Harris.
    Hannah Peart, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • And the choices Michigan makes for the state Supreme Court will determine whether Democratic nominees will maintain their current 4-3 majority on that influential body.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of current
Adjective
  • Yang says this newfangled system has been the goal of the company pretty much all along.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2024
  • In Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing box office flop, a futuristic development is the wild utopic imagining of Adam Driver’s protagonist Cesar Catilina, a controversial urbanist who’s invented a newfangled building material called Megalon.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of newfangled
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