Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.
From Slate ● May 7, 2025
"The president created a law so that whoever rapes children, should be arrested and sent to jail," she says, angry that nothing appears to have been done.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024
Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
As of Aug. 5, homicides were down 25%, rapes had dropped by 56% and aggravated assaults had decreased by 22% compared with the same time last year, according to Atlanta police data.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
These principalities would then roughly coincide with the modern rapes of Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey, and Hastings.
From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen
