Examples of recent in a Sentence
Recent events have brought attention to the problem.
I usually watch that show every week, but I missed the most recent episode.
Medical science has made amazing progress in recent decades.
That was the biggest earthquake in recent history.
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The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that recent ICE operations in the south state resulted in the arrest of 118 people, including five individuals the agency identified as gang members.
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Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2025
That’s left a glut of overqualified workers competing for jobs that otherwise might have gone to recent graduates.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 8 June 2025
That technology has proliferated and gotten relatively cheap in recent years.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 June 2025
The recent Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute was excellently done.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2025
That’s left a glut of overqualified workers competing for jobs that otherwise might have gone to recent graduates.
—Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 8 June 2025
That technology has proliferated and gotten relatively cheap in recent years.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 June 2025
The recent Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute was excellently done.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
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“Recent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recent. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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