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What does recent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word recent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having happened a short while ago.
  2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
  3. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
  4. In long-view scientific usage, particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy, may refer to events not "recent" in everyday usage, thousands or even millions of years ago.
  5. In geology and astronomy, "Recent", capitalised, has often been used as an exact synonym for "Holocene", particularly pre-21st century.
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The pamphlet provides a lot of information on recent changes to the tax laws.
The recent decline of the stock market does not necessarily signify the start of a recession.
Classical perspectives of microbial polysaccharide degradation are currently being augmented by recent advances.
The company has replied to the recent protests by posting an ad in the local newspaper.
There have been a number of burglaries in the neighborhood in recent months.
This apparently minor event has acquired increasing significance in recent weeks.

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