latter-day
adjective
lat·ter-day
ˈla-tər-ˌdā 
1
: of present or recent times
latter-day prophets
2
: of a later or subsequent time
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This was amplified by the arriviste drive of Lebedev the younger, who set on London society like a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo.
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
Over at the Sparkle City Disco show, a coven of drunken zoomers—many of whom, mind you, were born after 9/11—are all shimmying jubilantly to songs by Donna Summer, pointing stoically to the ground and then triumphantly up at the ceiling, looking rather a lot like latter-day John Travoltas.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
These latter-day doges only see regulations as obstacles to righteous, plundering plutocrats.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
Tell me another band ever in history that has made a latter-day album that good in their 80s, with that level of songwriting, that level of performance.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2025
Over at the Sparkle City Disco show, a coven of drunken zoomers—many of whom, mind you, were born after 9/11—are all shimmying jubilantly to songs by Donna Summer, pointing stoically to the ground and then triumphantly up at the ceiling, looking rather a lot like latter-day John Travoltas.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
These latter-day doges only see regulations as obstacles to righteous, plundering plutocrats.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for latter-day
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“Latter-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latter-day. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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