Sentence examples for modern usage of from inspiring English sources

They meant fantastic as in unreal, not in the modern usage of, you know, like, awesome.

That's in the sense of turning in restless sleep rather than the modern usage of obfuscating truth for political ends.

In the author's experience, however, modern usage of the term ''Nyquist rate" refers instead to half the sampling rate.

(Exeunt DEVILS with FAUSTUS) Last week's poem, Sophie Hannah's Selling His Soul, set me thinking about both the origins and the modern usage of the phrase.

Autocephalous church, in the modern usage of Eastern Orthodox canon law, church that enjoys total canonical and administrative independence and elects its own primates and bishops.

In fact, the modern usage of the word can be dated back to Gray's lifetime and the change in meaning was part of the 18th-century cult of order and of human control of nature.

As it happens, that's wrong: very old dictionaries defined inflation as a rise in money and/or credit, but the modern usage is, of course, a rise in prices.

The term seems to have been introduced into modern usage instead of nonmetals for the very reason that there is no hard and fast line between metals and nonmetals, so that "metal-like" or "resembling metals" is a better description of the class than the purely negative "nonmetals".

Qualia (singular 'quale'), in a common modern usage, are properties of experiences that type them in phenomenological respects.

As it is (like in the case of the genetic code discussed above) not likely that this sequence similarity is due to chance, it is normally attributed to common ancestry (hence the term sequence "homology"; in biology, this term in its modern usage indicates relations of shared ancestry).

I seethed at those who spoke of Amy's death in the clichés of modern usage, such as "passing" and "closure".