Example Sentences

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This study confirms the crucial role of news content in the Google search engine, as users prioritize quality, completeness, trust, and up-to-dateness when seeking information.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

Contemporaneity, up-to-dateness, the idea that one is obligated to do something merely because thousands of other people do it, rampages through the novel like a forest fire.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope Trollope's anatomy of late Victorian England shows its up-to-dateness by having its heroine travel on the underground.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2011

If sculptors do not conform to these norms of up-to-dateness, they do not get through the Whitney door.

From Time Magazine Archive

His passage through the streets of Pendragon woke him from his dreams; its almost startling modernity and obtrusive up-to-dateness laughed at his fancies.

From The Wooden Horse by Walpole, Hugh, Sir