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Meanings of modern equivalent in English

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Usage of modern equivalent in English
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Where Mary was tentative, her modern equivalent left no room for doubt.
The duel: pakistan on the flight path of american power
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Here, we were the modern equivalent of the people at Villa Diodati.
Haunted: a novel of stories
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Increasingly a text or WhatsApp message to Warren Gatland is the modern equivalent.
The Irish Times
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The modern equivalent, though, is all about noise rather than impact.
The Guardian
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Well, of course - and Gerry Adams is the modern equivalent of Oliver Cromwell.
The Irish Times
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You'll be the modern equivalent of Mrs. John Wilkes Booth.
The President's Assassin
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This bubble is the modern equivalent of the inventor's garage.
The Irish Times
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An efficient computer virus is the modern equivalent of a plague, showing no mercy.
The Irish Times
9
That message may be a modern equivalent of Alexander Graham Bell's Mr. Watson, come here.
Wired
10
The barbarism of the neo-Gaul is unrestraint ("punch" is the nearest modern equivalent).
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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They are fighting it out in court - the modern equivalent of the Wild West.
The Irish Times
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These radar outposts could be the modern equivalent of the frontier forts of Indian days.
Wired
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Neither art nor thought has a modern equivalent; only Heloise, like Isolde, unites the ages.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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There is certainly no modern equivalent to da Vinci.
The new yorker
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It was the ultimate get-out-of-jail card, the modern equivalent of a ticket to Noah's Ark.
The President's Assassin
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This is the modern equivalent of digging through a household rubbish bin or stealing mail.
News.com.au
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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