modern age
Noun
Meaning
modern age (uncountable)
Synonym of modern period or modern history (the period following postclassical history, in Europe known as the "Middle Ages", spanning from about 1500 to the present).
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Examples
Information is the oxygen of the modern age.
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.