be recent

Frequency: 8.025.5 per million words

Indicates that something happened or began only a short time ago.

recentVERB + recent

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Examples (10)

  • The event was very recent and unexpected.
  • This development is quite recent, so many are still unaware.
  • Her arrival is quite recent, so she's still settling in.
  • His promotion was fairly recent, just last month.
  • All these changes are very recent and will take time to adapt to.
  • The discovery was so recent that details are still scarce.
  • Their engagement is relatively recent, only a few weeks old.
  • The data is recent and reliable, collected just yesterday.
  • If the incident is recent, we should report it immediately.
  • The news was too recent to have reached everyone in the remote areas.