present-day
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of present-day
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Of course, Weedbrook and the rest of the Xanadu team couldn’t anticipate the present-day market conditions.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
They go on to explain the vacuum in our present-day war machine:
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026
To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
"There are things that, when we study them, with our present-day criteria, our values, obviously cannot make us feel proud," Felipe said while visiting an exhibition on indigenous Mexican women in Madrid's National Archaeological Museum.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
The flourishing field of evolutionary psychology argues that many of our present-day social and psychological characteristics were shaped during this long pre-agricultural era.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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