modern usage

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandusage

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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usage
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/us
/ˈjuː.sɪdʒ/
the way a particular word in a language, or a language in general, ...
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(Definition ofmodernandusagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmodern usage

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Here, 'comfortable' does not mean a warm feeling in the tummy, asmodernusagewould suggest.
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The "abstraction" that scholasticism distinguishes as the essential means of knowledge possesses a completely different meaning than it does inmodernusage.
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While no instances of this pattern are found before 1850, inmodernusagejust because has a 78% chance to be followed by a negative statement.
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One source of confusion inmodernusageis that it has always been easier to identify a grafting procedure in the texts than it has in the music.
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I was referring to correct, settled, mature,modernusage.
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Below £1,000, there are four maxima in commonmodernusage—£500, £200, £50 and £25.
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This would co-ordinate the activities of an ancient office withmodernusagewithout legislation at all.
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The word "print", in the absence of a definition, is almost bound to lead to confusion and inmodernusageis considerably debased.
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Can he tell us if any changes have taken place in that trial commensurate with themodernusageof coins.
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It would be an utterly false economy for us to attempt to convert that building or any other building formodernusage.
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The result would be crisper, more in keeping withmodernusage, but the line would never be heard again.
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Themodernusageof the phrase is somewhat separate from its scriptural origins.
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Inmodernusageisomorphous crystals belong to the same space group.
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The latter was a periodic payment made by a tenant, just as inmodernusage.
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Inmodernusagemeteg is only used in liturgical contexts.
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Inmodernusage, nobility is applied to the highest social class in pre-modern societies.
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Modernusageof artificial fertilizers, containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, has affected the mouths of watersheds.
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Modernusagealso includes genetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies.
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