recentadjective
uk/ˈriː.sənt/us/ˈriː.sənt/B1 happening or starting from a short time ago:
Is that a recent photo?
Have you been following recent political events?
In recent times/years/months, etc. there has been an increase in the amount of violence on television.
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- In recent years I've been cursed with worsening eyesight.
- The party's ambitions have been deflated by the two recent by-election defeats.
- They've updated a lot of the entries in the most recent edition of the encyclopaedia.
- He dismissed recent rumours about his private life as fictitious.
- House prices have plummeted in recent months.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
In the past
- ago
- any more idiom
- anymore
- back in the day idiom
- before
- clock
- dot
- late
- memory
- more
- no longer idiom
- of late idiom
- of old idiom
- old
- past
- the status quo ante
- the week/month/year before last idiom
- the year dot idiom
- use
- used
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