recent meaning
EN[ˈɹiːsənt]US
FR récent
- AdjectiveCOMmore recentSUPmost recentPREré-SUF-ent
- Having happened a short while ago.
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
- The cause has several hundred recent donors.
- I met three recent graduates at the conference.
- In long-view scientific usage, particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy, may refer to events not "recent" in everyday usage, thousands or even millions of years ago.
- In geology and and astronomy, "Recent", capitalised, has often been used as an exact synonym for "Holocene", particularly pre-21st century.
- Having happened a short while ago.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- A recent work addressed PET/MRI protocols for liver imaging using a trimodality system (PET/CT and MRI with a shuttle table enabling accurate PET-MRI fusion results)[13 ].
- A recent high-throughput screen identified various compounds such as PI3K or BCL2 inhibitors that can be combined favorably with ibrutinib.
- This pattern (i.e., old origin and more recent diversification) suggests a scenario of replacement in carnivory among polyneopterous insects.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Recent advances in surgical resection and combination therapy have significantly improved the 5 year survival for a subset of patients with oligometastatic disease.
- Recent publications even state that they can differentiate into nonmesodermal cells such as hepatocytes, neurons, or astrocytes.
- Recent studies have also shown that biodigestibility recalcitrance is closely related to saccharification recalcitrance.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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