unmodernized

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Recent Examples of unmodernized The rooms, largely unmodernized, are as Ellroy has described them in several overlapping accounts. Stuart Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020 According to DefenseNews, the cruisers Mobile Bay and Bunker Hill will retire in 2020, and the last of the eleven unmodernized ships will retire in 2025. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmodernized
Adjective
  • Steel, a Seal Beach Republican seeking a third term, has shown GOP resilience in the Democratic-leaning district in past elections.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The trust division doesn’t seem to account for any of your sister’s past mortgage payments.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This culinary adventure includes ancient cooking methods that lead to soulful cuisine and an environment that captures the excitement of Tel Aviv and Miami.
    Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Their ancient privilege will be reduced to a life adapted to a luxurious hole, an underground universe full of enigmas where a wound from the past will explode between two conflicting families.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • City documents showed the work is needed because some components of the plant's cooling infrastructure are outdated and costly to operate, while others are obsolete or no longer have replacement parts available.
    Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Parks & Recreation Director Terry Moore said one of the playground’s slides broke in April, and many parts needed to fix it were obsolete.
    Aaron Sullivan, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • This antiquated discussion about women’s prowess behind the camera can be summed up with this: Women’s work as cinematographers is comparable to (and in other cases, better than) men’s.
    Stacy L. Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Now, the company is striving to apply these same principles of convenience, affordability and ease of access to yet another antiquated business: retail pharmacy.
    Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D., Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • On the day of what is without exaggeration being called the most consequential election of our time, ignoring political news in favor of watching an antique cheese slicer being restored may seem frivolous.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There are antique license plates, signs from restaurants long closed, and photographs of small towns that’ve been rendered unrecognizable by the decline that followed the route’s decommissioning.
    Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • However, the interface looks a bit basic and out-of-date, especially compared with Mailchimp’s fresh, modern aesthetic.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, its out-of-date rules discourage work.
    Naveen Rao, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Seating just 18 diners, the somewhat old-fashioned establishment is open only at lunchtime on weekdays, takes cash only, sells books, and reservations must be made by phone – or postcard.
    Richard Windsor, theweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Perhaps not coincidentally, by the time the first season ended, Tulsa King had become less of a lighthearted dramedy — about an old-fashioned New York crime boss way out of his element — and more of a conventional crime drama with betrayals, gunfights, and brooding regrets.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024

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“Unmodernized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unmodernized. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.

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