adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the modern/modern-day equivalent (of sth)
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Horror films are the modern-day equivalent of morality tales.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gilliam's movie is a modern-day fairy tale.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alice, the Miracle Worker, was a modern-day phenomenon; why should the past play any part?
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He listened to lengthy and completely spurious accounts by this modern-day alchemist of how his machine supposedly worked.
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The modern-day locator has everything in its favour - provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery.
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They are the charts of a new frontier, modern-day versions of the maps made before ships circumnavigated the globe.
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This method of catching fish was an early form of modern-day trawling.
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You'd have thought that re-creating it on stage would have the same effect on a modern-day director.