Modern-day
Modern-day adjective - Characteristic of the present.
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Recent and modern-day are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Recent" instead an adjective phrase "Modern-day".
Recent
Recent adjective - Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.
Modern-day and recent are semantically related. You can use "Modern-day" instead an adjective "Recent".
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- The more recent novellas, released over a decade later, have Tim and Nick at the same age but feature modern-day concepts such as the London Eye.
Source: Literature / Diamond Brothers - However, recent fossil evidence indicates that this was not the case and, instead, Pachycephalosaurus tended to fight for mates/territory by using their dome-shaped heads to ram one another in the stomach, thighs, or legs (Much like what you'd see in modern-day giraffes).
Source: Hard Head -
Still Fighting The Civil War: Perhaps the Ur-Example of this trope: modern-day Islamic terrorists use the spectre of Western "crusaders" quite liberally in their propaganda, as if the Crusades had never ended.note This is ironically quite a recent phenomenon.
Source: Useful Notes / The Crusades
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Recent and Modern-day. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern-day/recent
Modern-day & Recent. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern-day/recent>.
Recent or Modern-day. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/modern-day/recent.
