present-day
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of present-day
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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These ancient and relatively unchanged objects formed early in solar system history and may help scientists better understand how the planets formed and migrated before settling into their present-day positions.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
Several members of the present-day AI illuminati have ties to the university.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Paris — There’s a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
It further telegraphed the kind of ideological inertia in which Juneteenth — and any other present-day discussion of slavery in America — too easily becomes mired.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
At that time the last Ice Age was drawing to a close in Europe, and the climate between the Alps and Scandinavia resembled that of present-day Siberia or Alaska.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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