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modern world

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Noun1.modern world - the circumstances and ideas of the present age; "in modern times like these"
contemporary world, modern times, present times
times - a more or less definite period of time now or previously present; "it was a sign of the times"


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And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
It makes him pre- eminently a modern poet--a poet of the self-pondering, perfectly educated, modern world, which, having come to the end of all direct and purely external experiences, must necessarily turn for its entertainment to the world within:--
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
Man or boy, woman or girl, they had for a moment taken hold of the thing that makes the mature life of men and women in the modern world possible.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
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