modern counterpart

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandcounterpart

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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counterpart
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkaʊn.tə.pɑːt/us
/ˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ.pɑːrt/
a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place ...
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(Definition ofmodernandcounterpartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The sadness of the situation is that hismoderncounterpartcannot do the same.
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I do not know what themoderncounterpartof that cry will be, especially now that we are to have the poll tax.
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It will occupy themoderncounterpartof the tent door, namely, the shop window, but will not be of great assistance in relieving the position in these distressful districts.
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The script font, balanced with a moremoderncounterpart, effectively creates a connection between past and present.
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The baroque tailpiece is flatter and does not have an upper saddle nor does it have the keyed holes one sees in itsmoderncounterpart.
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The study of branching rules is important in classical invariant theory and itsmoderncounterpart, algebraic combinatorics.
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The long s is substituted by itsmoderncounterpart.
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A medal or coin can be representative of an antitype ormoderncounterpartto typical, readable typologies that commonly appear in art.
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Despite these nominal equivalences, each note had a much shorter temporal value than itsmoderncounterpart.
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The campus bore minimal resemblance to itsmoderncounterpart.
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Hostesses can be seen as themoderncounterpartof geishas, providing entertainment to the likes of groups of salarymen after work.
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It has nomoderncounterpart.
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Such symbolic procedures can be hardly correlated with modern counterparts.
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As such, senators who served more than 100 years ago were not so very different from their modern counterparts.
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What the champions of unfettered religious reason chose to ignore-and what their modern counterparts choose to forget-is that this confessional balance was under continual threat of destabilization.
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These men were famous in their time and their names live on, but their modern counterparts are largely unknown to us.
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Today, their modern counterparts reject the markets and the concept of economic growth.
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I think that they are all recognising them as the modern counterparts of the pilgrims.
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A good export trade and sound economy at home are the modern counterparts of the sinews of war.
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