Modern
Modern noun - A person with very modern ideas.
Usage example: the leaders of the American suffragists were originally regarded by many people as uppity moderns who should have stayed in their place
Square
Square noun - (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon.
Both words in one sentence
- The M4 assault rifle with square holographic reflex seems to be the automatic weapon of modern FPS gaming, to the point that 80% of FPS games either have it or a gun based on it.
Source: Standard FPS Guns -
The fiddle got more grace in the early 1700s, when a new generation of fiddle makers developed new models, while still being more square, and smaller, than the modern ones.
Source: Useful Notes / Hardanger Fiddle - Even though modern ones include an FPU, the floating-point instructions of a CISC chip don't include "complex" instructions in the mathematical sense, that is, involving the square root of -1.
Source: Non Indicative Name / Real Life
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