Word Finder - recent

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Having happened a short while ago.

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Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.

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Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

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I met three recent graduates at the conference.

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Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.

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(capitalised as "Recent") Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.

This memory was recent and came easily.

The restaurant was a recent and welcome addition.

It was a recent decision.

It was a recent picture, and she was smiling, her dark eyes dancing.

Recent events forced my hand.

Then there was Cynthia's recent additional fear.

The recent chain of events made it impossible for her to deny something serious was going on, and she was somehow involved.

After the Emperor had left Moscow, life flowed on there in its usual course, and its course was so very usual that it was difficult to remember the recent days of patriotic elation and ardor, hard to believe that Russia was really in danger and that the members of the English Club were also sons of the Fatherland ready to sacrifice everything for it.

A number of Bird Song's more recent guests were bickering over differing rules to Mexican Train Dominoes in the dining room while others were trading Boardwalk and Park Place in the parlor.

Of recent years great strides have been made in the culture of new varieties of water-lilies in the open air.

In their attitude toward him could still be felt both uncertainty as to who he might be – perhaps a very important person – and hostility as a result of their recent personal conflict with him.

She made one anyway and forced herself to eat it, blaming her recent trauma for her queasiness.

Dean's mind churned the details of the recent happenings, trying to make sense of Shipton's orchestrated plunge to the river, and the strange reactions of those still sleeping beneath Bird Song's roof, and elsewhere.

We are creating at a rate exponentially more than our most recent ancestors.

The very fact that we have debated in recent years whether we can use torture to get information that will save lives is a sign of the effects of civilization.

She didn't know if he'd welcome the gift or if his recent ordeal left him more jaded toward his past.

After lunch, photographer Brandon Westlake took the opportunity to show a montage of his recent shots, first on the parlor coffee table, and then, as the crowd increased, he presented a full-fledged slide show.

During the hurried explanations of her mother's condition, her trip home and hushed comments on the recent happenings, it was moments before Dean noticed Janet O'Brien sitting in the far corner.

A few had been converted to apartments, but a recent wave of historical consciousness had temporarily halted the decay.

Betsy filled mother in on the recent happenings while I placed the second call to Brennan.

She glanced at antique school house clock on the kitchen wall, a recent purchase.

While Dean hadn't read the tome, Cynthia had utilized it faithfully in her recent perpetration of meals.

As he peddled downhill toward Ridgway, he could see the east side of the valley, exposed to the southern sun, had melted nearly clear of snow while across the valley, draped in shadow most of the day, the western slope retained almost all its recent covering.

Dean paused at the County's sole traffic light, a recent addition and, in some minds, a reluctant bow to progress.

Recalling his recent impressions, the first thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite Austrian adjutant, Bilibin, and last night's conversation.

Recent as that mental picture was, Rostopchin already felt that it had cut deep into his heart and drawn blood.

Talon's work on her arms pissed him off, but he hadn't considered the wounds were as recent as yesterday.

While the warm sun drenched them and there wasn't a cloud in sight, they'd learned from recent experience that mountain weather could blow in misery at a moment's notice and replace the sunshine with drenching, chilling rain.

The retreating blonde woman's rope and crampons lay discarded at the edge of the path, the bag from their recent purchase crumpled nearby.

Sackler brought Dean up to date on his recent stay with Baratto but nothing of importance was learned.

The clipped note in her chief advisor's voice reminded her of how little he approved of her recent decision to involve herself in war planning.

His long term of service in the House, his leadership of his party on its floor, his candidacy for the speakership, and his recent election to the United States Senate, marked him out as the available man.

We have not had an opportunity of testing this, nor Grubb's more recent models; but, should it be found possible to produce such images satisfactorily, without distortion and with an apparatus convenient and rigid in form, such micrometers may possibly supersede the filar micrometer.

Recent investigations have confirmed Baeyers view of the formation of formaldehyde, but a different explanation has been recently advanced.

It is only of recent years that the writings of Schopenhauer and the researches of many distinguished orientalists have awakened some interest in Asiatic philosophy.

The aqueduct was constructed in quite recent times, rain-water having previously given the only supply.

Her efforts to restore it in1526-1528were ineffectual; her prestige had depended upon her reputation for wealth derived from the fact that she had acted in recent years as the paymaster of Europe.

The work is only of any value for the century 45055 0, when Jordanes is dealing with recent history.

Of the former, the first, published in 1896, was on the dynamics of a particle; and afterwards there followed a number of concise treatises on thermodynamics, heat, light, properties of matter and dynamics, together with an admirably lucid volume of popular lectures on Recent Advances in Physical Science.

Previous to this period the husbandry of Scotland was still in a backward state as compared with the best districts of England, where many practices, only of recent introduction in the north, had been in general use for generations.

Whereas formerly the farmer was to some extent compensated by a higher price for a smaller yield, in recent years he had had to compete with an unusually large supply at greatly reduced prices.

The recent deposits of the Transvaal may be considered to be insignificant.

The most recent statistics show the disease to be diminishing.

The recent scandals of the papacy induced Otto to deprive the Romans of their right to elect popes.

The civil wars may be regarded as a continuation of the previous municipal struggle, intensified by recent hostilities between the burghers and the nobles.

Beads of'amber occur with Anglo-Saxon relics in the south of England; and up to a comparatively recent period the material was valued as an amulet.

Mention may be made here of a class of epidermal organ, the hydaihodea, the wide distribution and variety of which have been revealed by recent research.

This has had a most important effect on the development in recent years of morphological anatomy.

Gaseous Interchanges and their Mechanism.Another feature of the construction of the plant has in recent years come into greater prominence than was formerly the case.

The true nature of the relationship was first recognized by Pfeffer in 1877, but few cases were known till recent years.