The phrase "a modern example of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to illustrate a current instance or case that exemplifies a particular concept, idea, or phenomenon.
Example: "The smartphone is a modern example of how technology has transformed communication."
Alternatives: "a contemporary instance of" or "a current illustration of".
Google's purchase of Android provides a modern example of successful transfer.
Most powerfully it's a modern example of that old genre, the woman's movie.
The echidna has been used as a modern example of this, as it can effectively turn off its inner thermostat to conserve energy during extremes of temperature.
A modern example of the use of odours in religious ceremonies is the burning of incense in the Roman Catholic mass.
Last year, Caz Hildebrand, a cookbook designer, and Jacob Kenedy, a chef, published a cookbook that didn't look anything like a modern example of the genre.
Studying a modern example of these structures is a great way to learn more about the past: a modern-day analog to ancient times.
It is a rare modern example of an epicontinental sea (a shallow sea on top of a continent), a feature much commoner at earlier times in the Earth's geologic history.
I mentioned a lone modern example of a hoary cliché, with the Jaguar XF's maddening touch-activated glovebox button flying the Union Jack for finicky British electrics.
Many of us didn't grow up during the original Stonewall moment, or even during the Aids epidemic, where similar grassroots activism led to reform, but we still have a salient modern example of a movement rising up and demanding their voices be heard: the Black Lives Matter movement to end police violence.
However, in boxing brash behaviour and being cocky are often mistaken for being "colourful"; Broner is a perfect modern example of a so-called character and at the recent conference in New York, Rees was easily able to reduce him to stuttering and muttering with a selection of b-list banter.
At Anthropologie, Ms. Kulik found a more modern example of the design on a set of measuring cups.
