(a.) Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
(a.) New and common; trite; commonplace.
(n.) A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(4) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(5) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(6) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
(7) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(8) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(9) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(10) It has been shown that modern premedication techniques do not prevent the activation of the sympathoadrenal system and the enhanced synthesis of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin-like compounds in response to preoperative stress.
(11) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(12) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
(13) We try to determinate, that systems theory has to be introduced into modern medicine.
(14) The HindIII restriction patterns of 3 of the ancestral S. enteritidis plasmids were identical to the modern 38 MDa plasmid, while all contained identical bands of 3.5, 2.7 and 1.9 kb.
(15) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Although classifications initially paralleled the staging of pelvic malignancies, more modern systems follow the natural progression of this pathologic process.
(18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(19) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(20) It lies in retrofitting old cities to modern demands.
Snazzy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(2) Then came the comfortable dorm room, the snazzy banquets and the complimentary Peking opera tickets.
(3) He has just launched Fushin’s snazzy food truck .
(4) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(5) Circling a packed peninsula lined with scores of snazzy hotels and designer boutiques, the beaches will be buzzing from January to March, perpetually topped up by a cavalcade of South America's rich and famous.
(6) You don't get to wear the snazzy tear-drop helmets though?
(7) A mix of low prices, snazzy stores and up-to-the-minute fashion delivered a 25% rise in sales for Primarkin the three months to 5 January without a single item sold online.
(8) You find a discreet diplomat, bright white shirt, snazzy blue wool tie, eyes kind behind designer specs.
(9) Paul Gailey invites us all to enter our annual salary into this snazzy gizmo and then feel crushed when it tells us how many years it would take us to earn Andy Carroll's weekly wage.
(10) After snazzy interplay Morgan Schneiderlin fed Pellè, who swept the ball gratefully into the net from close range.
(11) It feels like there have never been so many people pounding pavements – often in snazzy leggings and high-vis, dry-fit tops.
(12) City, led out by Roberto Mancini for now, are wearing snazzy blue tracksuit tops.
(13) • 01485 210262, whitehorsebrancaster.co.uk FISH AND CHIP SHOPS The Rockfish Seafood & Chips , Dartmouth, Devon Photograph: Chris Terry This snazzy chippy, just opened in June, is the new endeavour from Mitch Tonks, the former Fishworks owner.
(14) Lenny is careful to remove his snazzy sunglasses in front of his pals, and tries to conceal the fact that the young Asian woman in his party is in fact his children's au pair.
(15) Dressed in a grey top and checked scarf, she clutches a pair of snazzy black and orange sunglasses, which she taps against her leg for emphasis.