modern greats
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Some live modern lifestyles, while conservative groups lead simpler lives, limiting the use of technology and relying on modern medicine only when necessary.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025
Today the nomadic people live mostly modern lifestyles but still tend reindeer.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023
Piers Mitchell, a paleopathologist at Cambridge University who worked on the study, said ancient latrines could become a key source of biomolecular information and allow scientists to explain how modern lifestyles affect human health.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2020
“For all the good that technology offers us in our modern lifestyles, there is also a darker, seedier side to it,” Huber said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2019
In the early 1930s, Fuller decided that ingrained human sleep patterns were no longer practical for modern lifestyles.
From Slate • Apr. 26, 2013
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