postmillennial
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of postmillennial
First recorded in 1850–55; post- + millennial
Example Sentences
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Finally, he seemed poised to capitalize on the postmillennial rush of tourists to the highest mountain on Earth — a boom there seemed no reason to doubt would continue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2021
He has a definite worldview and a strategy, a feral brilliance that has cracked the political code in the digital, postmillennial era.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
“Hotel Mumbai” belongs to an odd postmillennial genre: the queasy and half-cathartic thriller, based on actual outrages of recent times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 15, 2019
“With the postmillennial generation and their activism and their political leanings, there is a lot of concern that this next generation may be much less inclined to join up,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
But even if only apocryphal, the picture it paints of American acrimony in the postmillennial years is true beyond mere facts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2017
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