modern age
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandage
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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age
noun
uk/eɪdʒ/us/eɪdʒ/
the period of time someone has been alive or something ...
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(Definition ofmodernandagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themodernageof alienation had truly begun.
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What are the typical symbols of thismodernage?
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The ambivalences of ourmodernageare exacting their tribute.
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Again, the problem extends into themodernage.
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Rather than reminders of the depth and legitimacy of themodernage, they embodied the possibility of something entirely apart.
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Finally, the chaotic change and barbarity of themodernageallowed this to crystallise into a real religion.
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The building serves as a poignant testimony to the problematic nature of the sacred in themodernage.
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There is simply no "prelegal" realm of social life to which legal outcomes can be referred, at least not in thismodernage.
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Many cultural actors + priests, monks, scholars, and the like, and, in themodernage, specialists and scientists + have participated in such coalitions.
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This makes descriptive sense in themodernage, but may be confusing since in the past these terms have referred to other phenomena.
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The characteristic thematic boundary line already lies here, though, however close one considers the historical connection between scholasticism and themodernageto be.
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For many others, however, salons were emblematic of the sociability that, in themodernage, was necessary for any full realization of the self.
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That is astonishing in themodernage.
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It is irrelevant in themodernage.
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Its industry reflects themodernage.
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We know that in thismodernagethat is inevitable.
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The examples are legion in themodernage.
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It is completely out of keeping with themodernage.
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Such conditions should not exist in thismodernage.
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I found that quite staggering in themodernage.
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In themodernage, change is constant and fast.
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Speed by itself is not enough in thismodernage.
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