American airports have become modern-day Thunderdomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [First-Class Airports! Guess Where?] Reference

It was the 19th-century version of the modern-day IUD.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crash Course On Contraception] Reference

"Actors are the modern-day shamans of those ancient tribes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch Of The Poet] Reference

The Cambodian government isn't exactly a modern-day Kremlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting For Justice?] Reference

Sounding the alarm about modern-day slavery is a useful stopgap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plight Of The 'Child Slaves'] Reference

In modern-day Russia, business is thoroughly entwined with politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putin's Gas-Patch Putsch] Reference

Killings like Politkovskaya's are rarely solved in modern-day Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slain But Not Silenced] Reference

The modern-day conservative establishment is reverential about Buckley.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Kennedy decreed that modern-day Marine officers meet the same standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome to the Family] Reference

By all accounts, this modern-day rematch would be even more devastating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chemical Nightmares] Reference

Or at least the modern-day equivalent: an arts patron with deep pockets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrating The Word] Reference

"Rocky" was a modern-day fairy tale of how you hoped or wished life could be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knockout Punch] Reference

Inside the building is AT&T's modern-day golden boy: chairman C. Michael Armstrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [At&Amp;T's Golden Boy] Reference

"It's a modern-day miracle," said one, "and we have just seen the tip of the iceberg.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

At 75 meters long, the modern-day Hindenburg is much smaller than the 245-meter original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zeppelin Rises Again] Reference

But modern-day travelers don't want to do without their plush towels and designer coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [RUSTIC LUXURY] Reference

Unlike McCarthy, who craved publicity, the modern-day campus blowhards thrive on anonymity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern-Day McCarthyism] Reference

And we're not talking about total frauds, those modern-day Eddie Haskells dripping insincerity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sucking Up Has Its Limits] Reference

The Borgata markets itself as some kind of modern-day Xanadu where all your fantasies come true.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: Babes Up in Arms] Reference

The Vatican campaign is nothing short of a genius hunt for a modern-day Michelangelo or Raphael.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Breaks Its Da Vinci Code] Reference

It was legal there until 1888, and I would say the impact on modern-day Brazil is still being felt.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Feel the Weight of That History'] Reference

But AT&T's modern-day golden boy clearly has no use for Golden Boy, which symbolizes AT&T's glorious past.    From Wordnik.com.  [At&Amp;T's Golden Boy] Reference

A modern-day pleasure kingdom, Dubai has mortgaged its past in exchange for freehold ownership of its future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Glitz] Reference

So why do journalists insist on drawing allusions between the fantastical tale and modern-day political realities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Osama Bin Baggins?] Reference

Mugabe's so-called land reform can in no way be compared with anything remotely resembling that in modern-day Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A New Food Pyramid] Reference

And when he goes abroad — to Europe, Asia, and Latin America — he is received like a superstar, a modern-day oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Misunderstood Man in America] Reference

These modern-day Canterbury tales are fantastical and, when they work, grippingly depict the outcomes of human frailties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snap Judgment: Books] Reference

This class of dropouts is new in Japan but has an exact parallel in the West, from the hippies through modern-day slackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Un-Japanese] Reference

Although Toumai's brain was about the size of a modern-day chimpanzee's, its face is quite flat, a classically human trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [All In The Family] Reference

This sounds like life in a developing country ruled by religious extremists, but such events took place in modern-day Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOVIES: A REAL-LIFE HORROR] Reference

Rumsfeld's barely concealed impatience reflects a widely shared view that modern-day military commanders have become risk-averse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evil In The Cross Hairs] Reference

The sequence it matches most closely, reported in the journal Science, is that of modern-day chickens, followed by frog and newt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Warner's explanation for this modern-day parental rut is intriguing: moms these days feel compelled to handle everything themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

In the early days Bitner felt a bit like a modern-day George Bailey, as he helped marginal but deserving buyers achieve homeownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of a Subprime Lender] Reference

Ambience: A true modern-day brasserie, Comme Ça features dark-paneled wainscoting, chalkboard menus and a host of mirrors on the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Spot: Comme Ça in Los Angeles] Reference

This khanate included Mongolia and the conquered territories that form most of modern-day China, part of Burma, part of India and Tibet.    From Wordnik.com.  [China for the World] Reference