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recent

Something that is recent has happened a short while ago. Has there been any recent news on the dispute? In recent weeks, we have seen a big jump in the price of gas. These changes are quite recent.

recent

new recent graduates a recent addition to the house recent buds on the apple trees (= late) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time a late development their late quarrel his recent trip to Africa in recent months a recent issue of the journal

Recent

(= Holocene) approximately the last 10,000 years

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Simple sentences

Is it a recent picture?
The recent scandals involving altar boys and religious leaders have undermined the faith people have in the Church.
In recent years, they have often moved.
The number of tourists has increased greatly in recent years.
Fortune 500 companies were the hardest hit by recent legislation.
The scientist explained the strange phenomena in the light of recent scientific knowledge.
The number of traffic accidents has increased in recent years.
According to a recent study, the average life span of the Japanese is still increasing.
Recent comics have too many violent and sexual scenes.
She knows much about recent fashions.
Is this a recent photo?
He is a recent convert to Catholicism.
The recent advances in medicine are remarkable.
I had a recent conversation with my neighbor.
Prices have been gradually rising in recent years.
Many local traditions have fallen into decay in recent years.
In recent years, science has made remarkable progress.
Recent advances in medicine are remarkable.
Chemistry has made notable progress in recent years.
The computer is a relatively recent invention.
This earth is moist owing to the recent rain.

Movie subtitles

Josh, I'm actually very glad you're here, because, um, I realized some things on my recent trip.
No evidence of a recent fire.
So, recent events could be permanently eradicated?
I understand Mr. Dubois is still recovering from his recent poisoning.
A recent invention of a New York City merchant.
I've heard about your more recent exploits, as everyone has.
We have witnesses here from Mandrake Falls. his own hometown, who will tell of his conduct throughout his lifetime. proving that his derangement is neither a recent nor a temporary one.
There's been a rather noticeable absence of snow these recent weeks.
This recent bombardment by ions from the sun.
Then it's made a recent reappearance.
Here are complete details of recent shipments of Bell Airacobras.. andCurtissP-40s to England and Russia.
You must admit, it was most considerate of me in view of recent events to.
The cause of these recent events can only be supernatural.
The recent big gold robbery.
Even his most recent photograph dates back to 30 years ago.
Starting with Ms. Davenport, give us your account of recent events.
There's no sign of any recent communication.
My government sincerely regrets your recent passing away and gladly welcomes your new reincarnation.
During the recent heavy weather, I've watched you at work on deck and aloft.
The recent storm has wrecked not only the Russian fleet but the largest of the French man-of-war.
We have witnesses from Mandrake Falls, who will tell of his conduct throughout his lifetime, proving that his derangement is neither a recent nor a temporary one.
The name of Ronald Boyce Carter must be added to the list of suicides that have shocked London in recent months.
Here are complete details of recent shipments of Bell Airacobras.
There has been, in recent weeks, a mounting unrest in this prison.
And to my father for. my recent disrespect, my deepest apologies.
It may please you to know that you will graduate with one of the best records of our recent history.
Your present one. - I've had so many names, I'm afraid I don't remember the most recent one.
The north chapel is the most recent addition, built around 1600.
The sacristy is the next most recent.
Every hour, on the hour this station is giving you up to the minute reports. - about difficults. - of the great states. in the metter of. the recent discovery in the Pacific. of an island that will be known hence forth as Atoll H.
What part did you play in the recent local elections, Mr. Rienzi?
But it should be a recent one.
It's very recent.
Might be. What have we got that's recent?
I believe at the outset, Your Highness, that I should express the pleasure of all of us, at your recovery from the recent illness.

News and current affairs

In recent years, other ideologies have also emerged to fill the human need for collective ideals.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
Now it hints that it may resume enrichment, and recent press reports about the imports from Pakistan suggest Iran failed to disclose everything to the IAEA.
Perverse subsidies must be removed and recent new ones favoring products such as bio-fuels reconsidered.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
A recent study has shown that the anti-depressant Citalopram can change the responses of individuals to hypothetical moral dilemma scenarios.
The recent debt deal is a move in the wrong direction.
In the United Kingdom, recent survey results are ambiguous.
The recent advent of fiscal advisory councils is a promising institutional start.
There are many other similar commitments that the US has made in recent years to the UN that remain utterly unfulfilled.
Liberal democracy is only a recent invention.
Recent moves to ease monetary policy have been a step in the right direction; but, so far, they have not proved to be a game changer.
Recent IMF experience suggests that, through appropriate coordination, private funds could be mobilized for big private-public partnership projects linking demand expansion with infrastructure investment.
Indeed, one positive achievement by European leaders at the recent Brussels summit was to begin the process of reining in both the ECB and the power of the American ratings agencies.
The most recent phase of the advanced economies' frenzied search for growth took different forms.
That is one of many recent dramatic signs that our climate is changing and that our planet is warmer than it has been for a very long time.
Of course, it can be argued that China's recent economic trajectory means that it is only a matter of time before the renminbi does become a match for the SDR's incumbents.
NEW YORK - One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world's collective conscience.
Her administration would mark a fresh departure from the country's troubled recent past.

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