Example Sentences

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Timely 911 response is vital, but our presentness and proximity to each other are equally important.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

We are in a state of uneasy presentness, “like Zen moments without the mindfulness,” she notes in the preface to her book “Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

Gibson’s strategy of extreme presentness reflects his belief that the current moment is itself science-fictional.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

Both Bel's and Sehgal's work concern presence and presentness, what it means to be a spectator.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2012

Do you either listen and apply your hearts to a presentness in hearing?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh