present-day
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of present-day
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Three playoff teams — the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox — rank among the six lowest payrolls, according to MLB present-day salary calculations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
According to the observations, the white dwarf's present-day magnetic field could sustain a bow shock for only a few hundred years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The judges said: "An affecting and lush jewel of a novel that moves between our present-day world to a medieval court and unsettles the idea that there's ever one universal historical truth."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
One interesting theory, given our present-day concerns with global warming, is that the ice ages were caused not by falling temperatures but by warming ones.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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