the present

noun

grammar
: a verb tense that is used to refer to the present time

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Make no mistake, Jamie Foxx was transparent about the rough road he’s traveled from April 2023 to the present. Mill Etienne, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 Back in the present day, Kraven has a list of evil dudes to kill, Chorney having been one of them. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024 An evening of seemingly polite dinner conversation and catching up turns into a night of psychological warfare as the two women reveal the scars of the past and the wounds of the present while their two young daughters play mind games of their own. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024 These frameworks obscure a lot about cultural changes and continuity from the distant past to the present day. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the present 

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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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