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Recent

adjective

New. "A recent addition to the house" , "Recent buds on the apple trees"

Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time. Synonym: late. "Their late quarrel" , "His recent trip to Africa" , "In recent months" , "A recent issue of the journal"

noun

Approximately the last 10,000 years. Synonyms: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent epoch.

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"Recent" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Crewe, the memory of many recent ones being fresh in his mind; "I should say so. Do you ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... contributed to the industrial progress of the age,—for it has too often happened that genius has planted the tree, of which patient dulness has gathered the fruit; but we will confine ourselves for the present to a brief account of an inventor of comparatively recent date, by way of illustration of the difficulties and privations which it is so frequently the lot of mechanical genius to surmount. We allude to Joshua Heilmann, the inventor of ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

... conveniently accompany the passengers, the trains were at first played out of the terminal stations by a lively tune performed by a trumpeter at the end of the platform; and this continued to be done at the Manchester Station until a comparatively recent date. ...

— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... and pursued a tireless course of special reading through the office encyclopaedias and some books he had borrowed. At last he drew aside the veil of reserve which concealed his family affairs from even his closest friends and inquired if I could direct him to any recent authority on cancer. I divined the sad truth that his tenderly beloved mother was suffering from the dread disease. That was the day before serums, and nothing that he found to read in books or periodicals gave him a faint hope that his dear one could be cured. Thenceforward, ...

— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens

... more of Ireland than a boy can learn in his school holidays; it was only by degrees that he realised that in Ireland, as he now found it, the single element of discord that remained ever unchanged was Religion. He had spent the four most recent and most receptive years of his life in an atmosphere in which religion had no existence. The hem of its raiment might, perhaps, have been touched, when, as sometimes happened, the subject of a studio composition was taken from the Bible, or the Apocrypha. Then, possibly, ...

— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

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