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recent
Meaning: happening or beginning not long ago
recent in a sentence
How recent is used in real sentences:
Our recent class project explored how seeds grow.
In a recent journal entry, Ava described the field trip from last week.
“A recent city project, started only last month, studied a simple question: Where do people choose to wait?”
— from the passage The Waiting Map
Synonyms for recent
Other words for recent — latest, new and current — carry the same meaning.
- latest
- new
- current
Antonyms of recent
Words that mean the opposite of recent:
- old
- distant
Where it comes from
From Latin recens 'fresh or new'
Memory hook
RECENT events are still fresh in your memory.