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up-to-date
up-to-dateadjectivein accordance with or reflecting the latest or newest ideas, standards, techniques, styles, etc.; modern.
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up to date
up to datesee bring up to date.
up-to-date
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in accordance with or reflecting the latest or newest ideas, standards, techniques, styles, etc.; modern.
Our professors are all practicing scientists and teach lectures in the context of up-to-date methodology.
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extending to the present time; including the latest information or facts; current.
Your lender can provide an up-to-date report on the amount you owe on your home loan.
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(of people) keeping up with the times, as in outlook, information, ideas, appearance, or style.
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in accordance with or abreast of the latest or newest ideas, standards, styles, etc..
If you're returning to the workforce after an extended absence, show how you've kept up-to-date with changes in your industry.
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right up to the present time; so as to include the latest information or facts.
The goal was to bring us up to date on many types of treatments that have some clinical benefit to patients.
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Etymology
Origin of up-to-date
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Up to date forecasts are available on the BBC Weather website and app throughout the summer.
From BBC • May 30, 2025
Up to date, we have not seen anyone outspoken around the issues that plagued Twitter from the board, so I cannot imagine anyone would try to go up against him on anything.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2022
New York Herald Tribune, per Carter Field: "Up to date no one has been put off the President's train."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Up to date, I've been merely amused at some of the statements and have not thought it worth my while to challenge them.
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Up to date there have been packed in the West this season about 100,000 head more than to same time last year.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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