modern greats
Britishplural noun
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Batiuk was born in Akron and grew up in Ohio, that famed cradle of cartoonists, from the pioneering 19th-century “Yellow Kid” writer-artist Richard Outcault to such modern greats as Bill Watterson of “Calvin and Hobbes.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022
City and Liverpool, two modern greats, are separated by a single point.
From New York Times • May 6, 2022
He underwent a solid middle-class education at Stowe School before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics, a degree that was then referred to as modern greats.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2017
At the National Gallery, London, 6 July to 2 October René Magritte: The Pleasure PrincipleOne of the true modern greats, René Magritte fascinates because he so poignantly questions the power of painting to create illusions.
From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2011
Off-Broadway can also take substantial credit for spurring interest in two modern greats, Eugene O'Neill and Bertolt Brecht.
From Time Magazine Archive
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