modern
adjective
using the most recent methods, ideas, designs, or equipment
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Modern and fashionable and up-to-date
state-of-the-art
adjective
state-of-the-art equipment or technology uses the newest and most advanced ideas and features
ahead of your/its etc. time
much more modern or advanced than most other people or things
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a sound made by stopping air as it passes through your throat. In some varieties of spoken...
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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