siècle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This isn’t the only thing going on this summer that gives me that ominous fin de siècle feeling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
For these reasons, the AI IPOs have less a forward-looking than a fin de siècle aura about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The catalog begins with fin de siècle Europe, when the emergence of mass publishing began to lead to a firmer distinction between subordinate illustrators and visionary fine artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
If peaches were touted as a cure for Georgia’s “sorry, washed-out anemic gullied hillsides” at the fin de siècle, than kudzu was seen as the panacea after the Great Depression.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
We are both products of this modern fin de siècle.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice
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