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Definition: Recent |
RecentAdjective1. Being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees". 2. Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal". 3. Near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Mining | The later of the two geologic epochs comprised in the Quaternary period, in the classification generally used; Holocene. Also, the deposits formed during that epoch. Recent includes the geologic time and deposits from theclose of the Pleistocene (glacial) epoch until and including the present. (references) |
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2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberA timeline of events in the news for October, 2002.
See also:
- Moscow theatre siege
- Beltway sniper attacks
- Bali car bombing - Myyrmanni bombing - Zamboanga bombings
- Afghanistan timeline October 2002
October 31, 2002
- The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko has now stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative.
- Over a million people gather in Greenwich Village to celebrate Halloween.
- Nine bombs exploded in Soweto, South Africa and the vicinity and one near Pretoria. It is believed to be the work of white right-wing soldiers or police.
- Pat Buchanan denounces Canada as Soviet Canuckistan over the warning issued by the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding travel to the US (see October 29 below.)
October 30, 2002
- Recent deaths: Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay is shot and killed at age 37.
- The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chose former Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale as their candidate for the United States Senate seat of recently-deceased Senator Paul Wellstone from Minnesota.
- The government of Canada issued a travel advisory to the United States for all Canadian citizens born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria after the United States announced that anyone born in those countries will be photographed and fingerprinted upon arrival in the United States.
- The European Union accused tobacco company R.J. Reynolds of selling black market cigarettes to drug traffickers and mobsters from Italy, Russia, Colombia and the Balkans.
October 29, 2002
- Moscow theatre siege: Some medical experts now believe that the Moscow hostages and terrorists were gassed with a military incapacitating agent such as BZ or a similar substance. Others claim that a fentanyl derivative may have been used. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow stated that it believed that the substance was an opiate. Other candidates suggested include the Russian incapacitating agent Kolokol-1 and aerosolized Valium. Yet another medical expert has stated that the gas used is a common anaesthetic gas that is commonly used in Europe.
- Jack the Ripper: The crime novelist Patricia Cornwell believes that she may have DNA evidence that identifies the painter Walter Sickert as the 19th century serial killer Jack the Ripper.
- The Canadian ministry of foreign affairs issues an advisory to Canadians born in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, and Sudan warning them to "consider carefully" whether to go to the United States for "any reason." This follows a US law requiring photos and fingerprints of Canadian citizens born in those countries upon entering the US, as well as the deportation to Syria of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen. The American ambassador, Paul Cellucci, later assures the Canadian government that all Canadian passport holders will be treated equally; however, further incidents attributed to racial profiling take place.
October 28, 2002
- Sports: Team Bath become the first university team to qualify for the FA Cup First Round since 1882. They beat Horsham 4-3 on penalties in the Fourth Qualifying Round replay.
October 27, 2002
- Sports: The Anaheim Angels win the 2002 World Series by 4 games to 3, with a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants in Game 7.
- Sports: Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys passes Walter Payton as the NFL's leading rusher in a 17-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks
- Leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva handily wins Brazil's presidential election
October 26, 2002
- Sports: The Anaheim Angels force a decisive 7th game with the San Francisco Giants in the 2002 World Series with a dramatic late-inning rally from 5-0 to win 6-5
- Moscow theatre siege: Special forces of the Russian army attacked the Chechen separatists who were holding hostages in a Moscow theater. 50 of the 53 separatists and 117 of the 800 hostages were killed. Most of hostages were killed by poison gas used by the special forces, with most of the surviving hostages hospitalised with gas poisoning.
October 25, 2002
- Recent celebrity deaths: Richard Harris, Irish actor, dies at 72 in hospital from Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma.
- Recent celebrity deaths: Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator, is killed in a plane crash with his wife, daughter, and five others.
- Moscow theatre siege: The Chechen separatist "suicide squad" released eight children but kept some 700 people hostage in a Moscow theater rigged with explosives. Diplomats waited for the gunmen to honor a pledge to free about 75 foreigners among their hostages, including Australians, Austrians, Britons, Germans and three Americans.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hundreds of Israeli soldiers backed by scores of tanks and other military vehicles took control of the Palestinian city of Jenin in response to a suicide bombing that killed 14 people.
- Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi dissolved the country's Parliament, officially starting the campaign for one of the East African country's most competitive general elections and closing his tenure as one of Africa's longest ruling leaders.
- IBM has announced that its Blue Gene petaflop supercomputer architecture will use the Linux operating system.
October 24, 2002
- Moscow theatre siege: The Chechen rebels holding hundreds of hostages in a Moscow theater shot and killed one captive and said they were ready to die for their cause, warning that thousands more of their comrades were "keen on dying."
- Beltway sniper: Within hours of Police Chief Charles Moose announcing that John Allen Muhammed was wanted in connection with the investigation, Muhammed and his 17-year-old stepson John Lee Malvo were arrested on federal weapons charges, found with the rifle used in the shootings.
- Recent celebrity deaths: Adolph Green, prolific playwright and lyricist, dies at 87. With songwriter Betty Comden, he wrote the hit Broadway musicals On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing and screenplays for Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon.
- Recent celebrity deaths: Harry Hay, gay rights activist. He founded the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights group in the US. He also helped found the Rainbow Coalition and the Radical Faeries.
October 23, 2002
- Moscow theatre siege: Suspected Chechen guerrillas took hundreds hostage in a theater in Moscow, threatening to blow up the building and demanding withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.
- Washington sniper: Police reported that a ransom note was left at the scene of the latest shooting by the person believed to have shot 13 people and killed 9. The note apparently demanded $10 million, and it contained a threat to local residents saying, "Your children are not safe anywhere at any time."
- recent celebrity deaths: Former CIA chief Richard Helms dies at 89.
October 22, 2002
- The German Bundestag made Gerhard Schröder again Chancellor. He was elected with 305 votes, one vote out of the 306 red-green coalition missing. After that, the new ministers of the Bundesregierung were appointed.
- Canadian author Yann Martel won the Booker Prize for his "quirky fable" Life of Pi. The prize is worth £50,000 ($77,300). Martel's work was picked from 130 novels from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth.
October 21, 2002
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Sixteen people were killed and 30 wounded when a car pulled alongside a commuter bus and exploded in Israel's Karkur Junction. The militant Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for the attack, which police described as a suicide bombing.
- Washington sniper: Authorities took two men into custody for questioning in the Washington-area sniper attacks, after surrounding a white van parked at a pay phone. They were later said not to be related to the sniper investigation.
- European Union: The Irish referendum on the Treaty of Nice has approved Ireland's acceptance of the treaty, removing an obstacle to the proposed expansion of the EU to 25 countries. Since the caretaker administration in the Netherlands has also agreed not to veto the expansion, relying on the support of the parliamentary opposition, it seems that it will be approved by all member states.
- Astronomy: Asteroid 2002 AA29 appears to be an astronomical object sharing the orbit of the Earth in an unusual "horseshoe" orbit.
October 19, 2002
- Computer chess: Chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and the computer program Deep Fritz have drawn the Brains in Bahrain match, a series of eight games, with 4 points each.
October 18, 2002
- October 18, 2002 Manila bus bombing: A bomb exploded in suburban Manila, destroying a bus and killing at least three people, while 23 others were wounded. A grenade exploded in the Philippine capital's financial district hours earlier. The bomb attacks occurred only one day after two deadly bombings in the southern Philippines.
- An armed individual entered a school in Stuttgart, Germany and held five people hostage, demanding a ransom for their release. The hostages were known to be four schoolchildren and one teacher. The 16-year old gunman subsequently released the hostages and surrendered peacefully.
- Valentin Tsvetkov, governor of the Russian Far East region of Magadan, was assassinated on the streets in Moscow, in what authorities claim was probably a contract killing.
October 17, 2002
- Zamboanga bombings: Two bombs exploded in the main shopping district of the mostly Christian city of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, killing six and wounding about 150. It was the second major evident terrorist incident in southeast Asia in less than a week. Suspicion immediately focused on Jemaah Islamiyah, an Islamic extremist group also being investigated for the October 11 Bali car bombing, in which more than 180 people died.
- Astronomy: There is further evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy. The object Sagittarius A* has now been identified as the black hole at the galactic centre by a team led by Rainer Schödel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, who observed the behavior of the star S2 which is near Sagittarius A*.
- U.S. officials announce the existence of a clandestine North Korea nuclear weapons program, admitted to by North Korean officials.
October 16, 2002
- Politics of the Netherlands: the cabinet of Balkenende resigns. Because of the constant internal fighting in the new party LPF, the other two governing parties, CDA and VVD decided that continuing the coalition was impossible. It seems almost certain that there will be new elections, possibly as early as December.
- Officials in Brussels fear that the collapse in the Netherlands will delay the expansion of the EU. The Netherlands cabinet was already divided on the issue and if new elections are to be held it may take 4-5 months before another cabinet is installed that is willing to make a decision.
- Politics of Germany: Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer signed the coalition treaty for the second red-green cabinet.
October 15, 2002
- A Kiev judge ordered prosecutors to open a criminal probe of Ukraine's veteran President Leonid Kuchma, on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
- ImClone Systems founder Sam Waksal pleaded guilty to bank fraud and conspiracy in an insider trading scandal that threatens Martha Stewart and her home decorating empire.
October 14, 2002
- The San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 1, to win the National League Championship Series and move on the World Series. They will play the Anaheim Angels, who defeated the Minnesota Twins 4 games to 1 to win the American League Championship Series.
- The Washington sniper strikes again at 9:15 pm at a Home Depot in Falls Church, Virginia, making Linda Franklin the ninth victim.
- United Kingdom took back the reins of government in Northern Ireland amid a crisis in the peace process provoked by a spying scandal, but vowed to try and restore home rule early next year. See also Good Friday Agreement.
- Indonesia's defense minister blamed al-Qaida and its extremist allies for the massive bomb attack that killed more than 180 people at a nightclub on the resort island of Bali.
October 13, 2002
- U.S. President George W. Bush amongst many others has condemned the perpetrators of the Bali car bombing of October 11. The death toll has now risen to at least 187.
October 12, 2002
- Ethnic rioting in India results in numerous deaths. The riots are said to be a reaction to recent public comments by Jerry Falwell, American televangelist, derogatory of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.
- 2002 Bali terrorist bombing: A car-bomb on theIndonesian island of Bali explodes outside a nightclub killing at least 182 people, 75% of whom are said to have been foreign holidaymakers. Another 210 people are said to have been injured. The principal suspects for this terrorist incident are a group seeking to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia, Jemaah Islamiyah, although it could equally be the work of al-Qaeda. Another bomb explodes at around the same time in the nearby town of Denpasar, Bali.
October 11, 2002
- U.S. plan to invade Iraq: The United States Senate voted to give war powers to President George W. Bush as part of the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iraq.
- At the same time, Jimmy Carter is honored with the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Myyrmanni bombing: A suicide bomber explodes at the Myyrmanni Shopping Mall in Vantaa, Finland, killing 7 including the bomber.
- United States embassy guards in Tel Aviv, Israel stopped a suicide bomber from setting off a bomb in a crowded beachfront cafe.
- More than 10,000 supporters of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat rallied in Gaza City to show strength against Hamas.
October 10, 2002
- France confirms that an explosion aboard French oil tanker Limburg off the coast of Yemen was, indeed, a terrorist act.
- Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Committee singled out his 1975 novel Fateless, a semiautobiographical account of a boy sent to Auschwitz who survives by detaching himself from the everyday gritty reality.
- In the Journal Nature, anthropologist Milford Wolpoff and colleagues at the University of Michigan argued that the fossil skull discovered in Chad in July is not that of an early human, but of an ape.
- A suicide bomber killed a 71-year-old woman and injured several other at a bus stop near Tel Aviv, Israel.
- A large crowd of Palestinian police officers and militiamen marched in a funeral procession for a policeman killed by a Hamas militiaman. Hamas claims that, although they did not authorize the killing, it was justified under Islamic law.
- The International Court of Justice grants sovereignty over the Bakassi peninsular to Cameroon and not Nigeria.
October 9, 2002
- The European Commission of the European Union has announced that ten countries - Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia - have met its criteria for entry, opening the way for an expansion of the EU from 15 member states to 25. The European Parliament has still to consider each candidate individually and the final decision will require the approval of the current member states.
- Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is making various ceremonial appearances in Canada in her role as the Queen of Canada.
- Lawrence Lessig argues Eldred v. Ashcroft in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The case challenges retroactive copyright extensions passed by Congress, and potentially affects millions of copyrighted works.
- Public Interest group Harvardwatch released a report on Harken's partnership with Harvard University
October 7, 2002
- Stock market downturn of 2002: Nasdaq falls 1.8% to 1119.40, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index falls 1.4% to 7422.84, and the S&P falls 1.91% to 785.28, levels not reached since August 1996, mid-1997, and spring of 1997 respectively.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops raid Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, killing 13 (10 from a helicopter missile) and wounding as many as 100, after Palestinians fire a rocket at a Jewish settlement in the area. Later Palestinians kidnap and kill Rajeh Abu Lehiya, chief of the Palestinian riot police, and two others die in gunfire during a police-Hamas supporters conflict.
- Astronomy: Announcement of the discovery of Quaoar a planetoid object circling the Sun
October 6, 2002
- The Limburg, a French oil tanker, explodes off the coast of Yemen, in a possible terrorist attack.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In the West Bank village of Akraba, Jewish settlers fire upon Palestinians picking olives, shooting dead 24-year-old Hani Yusuf and wounding another. Israelis soldiers shoot dead Samir Nursi, an Islamic Jihad gunman, in a gun battle in the Jenin refugee camp.
- recent celebrity deaths: Prince Claus of the Netherlands died aged 76.
- Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei was canonized by Pope John Paul II
October 5, 2002
- Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris stabbed in the abdomen at city hall during the Nuits Blanches event.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "October 2002."
Synonym: RecentSynonym: late(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Newness | Adjective: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new. |
Oldness | Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent. |
The Past | Foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect, preterpluperfect. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Recent |
| Etymologies containing "recent": recency. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Recent" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (fresh, freshly, green, hot, late, lately, latter, latter day, latterly, low, new, newly, recent, recently, up to date). |
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Screenplays | I must say, the most recent campus sporting event was quite spectacular (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Have you written any of your recent works in this shed of yours (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) According to a recent medical study, sex can be harmful to a certain part of the body (The Hollywood Squares; writing credit: Gary Johnson) My house and money will all go to my most recent ex-wife Candy (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Luís Filipe Rocha) In recent years, especially, there has been a great deal of criticism about this award (The 46th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Marty Farrell) | |
Lyrics | Though recent books are bolder, (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | In a recent survey, what did Americans reveal was their favorite smell? Banana. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Begrafenis van componist Puccini. Een recent portret van de meester (1924) | |
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 | Pictured here is an experimental animal being held by a technician. Only the technician's hands and the animal are visible. The technician measures the size of a reaction of the animal due to a recent injection. A measuring device is being used to achieve the measurement. This may have been a test for the possible carcinogenic effect of a chemical. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer). |
 | The front of Building 1 has changed over the last few decades. See PHIL_1073, and PHIL_1074 for more recent images. Credit: CDC. |  | Front of Building 1, CDC,late 1980's. The front of Building 1 has changed over the last few decades. See PHIL_1073, and PHIL_1074 for more recent images. Credit: CDC. |
 | Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars. Credit: NASA. |  | Recent observations of the remnants of Supernova 1987A, conducted with NASA's Hubble Space ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Recent images made with the Wide Field Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ... Credit: NASA. |  | Aerial photo of eroding marsh and oil from recent well blowout. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Fred Walton helping out at the snow hole - a site for studying recent layers of South Pole snow buildup and precipitation. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Image #2 of sequence. SST anomalies in January were close to the highest observ ed during the most recent El Nino. There is little or no evidence of the equato rial cold tongue or of enhanced chlorophyll along the equator. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Murals in San Francisco" by Paul Fitz Commentary: "A short of an interesting mural during my recent trip to san francisco." | "St. Augustine 1" by Nicole Morse Commentary: "These are a few shots from a recent trip to St. Augustine, Florida. ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | The man whose authority is recent is always stern. |
Joseph Addison | A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In more recent cases, all on the graduate school [347 U.S. 483, 492] level, inequality was found in that specific benefits enjoyed by white students were denied to Negro students of the same educational qualifications. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had received a very recent proof of its impartiality |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The whole of this wretched interior bore the traces of recent overturn |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His recent monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Thus they circle until they fall upon the recent trail of a fox, for a wise hound will forsake everything else for this |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many of the data are recent. (references) | |
Until recent years, it was always fatal. (references) | ||
Notify all recent sex partners and urge them to get a checkup. (references) | ||
Business | These forces participated in the recent Gulf war. (references) | |
Some recent joint plans include irrigation technology. (references) | ||
Local plastics production has risen rapidly in recent years. (references) | ||
Children | Pakistan | A reported 10,000 schools have closed in recent years due to a lack of teachers. (references) |
China | Some charitable schools have opened in recent years in rural areas, but not enough to meet demand. (references) | |
Morocco | Adoptive servitude is accepted socially, is unregulated by the Government, and has only in recent years begun to attract public criticism. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | The Board banned at least 10 films in recent years. (references) |
Cuba | This regulation normally applied to recent graduates. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Freedom of speech has improved marginally in recent years. (references) | |
Economic History | Tajikistan | Work force: No recent data available. (references) |
Denmark | Privatization has been increasing in recent years. (references) | |
Moldova | Moldova's legal system has improved in recent years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Kidnaping of children for ransom is a recent and reportedly growing phenomenon. (references) |
Japan | There have been cases of frostbite among the prison population in recent years. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The officers questioned him about a recent attack on a ZANU-PF official, then beat him. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Argentina | Other demographers in recent years have provided estimates of at most 450,000 persons. (references) |
Guatemala | The 1994 census, the most recent, stated that 42.8 percent of the population is indigenous; however, most observers believe that this figure is low and that indigenous people constitute a majority of the population. (references) | |
Minorities | Albania | No recent official statistics exist regarding the size of the various ethnic communities. (references) |
Political Economy | Vietnam | The pace of reform has slowed in recent years. (references) |
MOROCCO | The interest rate policy has also changed in recent years. (references) | |
MOROCCO | Tariffs: Tariffs have been gradually reduced in recent years. (references) | |
Political Rights | Senegal | Nevertheless, despite apparent potential for abuse, this balloting system has not been the subject of complaints or reports of abuse in recent elections. (references) |
Mexico | As a result of electoral reforms approved and implemented in recent years, the political process and especially the electoral process have become more transparent. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Citizens have the right to change their government through periodic multiparty elections based on universal adult suffrage; however, recent elections have been marred by violence and irregularities. (references) | |
Trade | Mauritius | The Freeport has grown substantially in recent years. (references) |
Sweden | Large-scale parallel imports are a fairly recent phenomenon in Sweden. (references) | |
Poland | Much of the PKN's recent work has focused on reviewing Polish standards. (references) | |
Travel | Yemen | Rents have declined in recent years due to a housing surplus. (references) |
Spain | They have been less frequent and less numerous in recent years. (references) | |
Uae | Major hospitals have recent equipment and non-Western trained personnel to operate them. (references) | |
Women | Algeria | About 25 percent of judges are women, a percentage that has been growing in recent years. (references) |
Ireland | Recent rape victims and victims raped by a stranger were more likely to have reported the rape to police. (references) | |
Chile | The Labor Code provides specific benefits for pregnant workers and recent mothers; these also apply to domestic workers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Fiji | The FTUC has in recent years adopted a more independent political stance. (references) |
Romania | There is no recent evidence of anyone being charged or convicted under this law. (references) | |
Ghana | No union leaders have been detained in recent years for union or other activities. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned, for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two places at once unless he is a bird. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | General, you and Secretary Rumsfeld in recent days have spoken frequently about the increasingly bad behavior of Iraq and of Iran. You were asked a question about North Korea the other day, and you said basically not much has changed there. |
Dennis Miller | But this recent intifada has hardened him like a dead guy on Viagra. |
Dick Cheney | Well, I haven't seen the recent one, but all of the ones that have come out in the last few months are all of the kind that were probably recorded before December. |
Robert Novak | Senator Breaux, the war on terrorism has not met a cessation of domestic politics and that I site the recent statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe and let's put it up on the screen. |
Rush Limbaugh | In recent years, our country has experienced unprecedented prosperity and, with the end of the Cold War, the illusion of impenetrable borders. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Abstracts from the recent dispatches of the commanders of our several squadrons are communicated with the report of the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Even if our powers were less doubtful in this respect as the Constitution now stands, there are considerations afforded by recent experience which would seem to make it our duty to avoid a resort to such a system. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Some, impoverished by the recent World War, seek to restore their means of livelihood. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Right now we are exploring the meaning of Hanoi's recent statement. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | We all know from recent experience what runaway inflation does to ruin every other worthy purpose. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | There were two moments on my recent journey which, for me, confirmed the final aims of our foreign policy and what it always must be. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Others of you are more recent additions to the family. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | In our recent discussions with the Soviet leadership we have been given representations, which, if fulfilled, would result in the withdrawal of some Soviet forces, a re-opening of dialogue with the republics, and a move away from violence. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | From his days as our all-time home run king to his recent acts of healing, he has always brought people together. |
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| "Recent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "Recent" is used about 15,841 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.71% | 15,795 | 590 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15,841 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "recent": have you had recent news of? ♦ in the recent past ♦ in the recent years ♦ of recent date ♦ recent accessions ♦ recent decision ♦ recent developments ♦ Recent epoch ♦ recent improvement ♦ recent past ♦ torrent transporting recent deposits. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "recent": recent-enough, recent-looking. | |
Ending with "recent": generally-recent, not-so-recent, too-recent. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "recent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vars (fresh). (various references) | |
Albanian | i vonë (belated, late, latter, tardy), i fundit (closing, current, dernier, ending, final, hindmost, last, latter, parting, rearmost, terminal, ultimate, utmost), i freskët (breezy, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, hot, new, new-laid, sweet, unhackneyed, up to date), freskët (fresh), bashkëkohor (coeval, contemporary, modern, neoteric, new, opportune). (various references) | |
Arabic | حديث جديد (contemporary, fresh, modern, neoteric, new, up to date), جديد (brand new, fresh, hot, incoming, modern, neoteric, new, novel, unprecedented, unused, up to date). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвременен (advanced, contemporaneous, contemporary, latter day, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, present, present day, up to date, with it), скорошен (fresh, latter day, young), отскорошен (new), нов (fresh, maiden, modern, nascent, new, newfangled, novel, patent, up to date, youthful), неотдавнашен, последен (dernier, end, final, lag, last, last ditch, latest, latter, lattermost, new, outside, parting, red-hot, terminal, the last, ultimate, uttermost). (various references) | |
Chinese | 最近 (recently, soon). (various references) | |
Czech | nedávný (late, latter). (various references) | |
Danish | frisk (fresh). (various references) | |
Dutch | vers (fresh, poem, verse), onbedorven (fresh, guiltless, innocent), luchtig (airily, airy, airy-fairy, flighty, fresh, gaunt, impulsive, lean, loose, sandy, slender, thin), fris (fresh). (various references) | |
Esperanto | freŝa (fresh). (various references) | |
Faeroese | nýggjur (fresh, new, novel), feskur (fresh). (various references) | |
Farsi | متاخر, تازه (Breezy, Fresh, Green, Late, New, Scion, Uptodate, Young), جدیدالتاسیس , جدید (Maiden, Modern, New, Novel, Unprecedented, Uptodate), اخیر (Last, Late, Latter). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuore (crisp, fresh, moist). (various references) | |
French | frais. (various references) | |
Frisian | farsk (fresh). (various references) | |
German | neu (afresh, clean, coltish, fresh, incoming, innovative, new, new-found, newly, newly-look, nouveau, novel, raw, unworn, young), neueste (latest, latest news, newest), Neue (new, newcomer, recruit), modern (fashionable, fashionably, latter day, mod, modern, modernly, new, new-fashioned, present day, progressive, rot, trendily, trendy, up, up to date, up-to-date), jüngst (before, in front of, late, lately, latest, recently, youngest), frisch (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, freshly, keen, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, Parky, sweet, undressed, wet). (various references) | |
Greek | νωπόσ (fresh), πρόσφατοσ (late, new), πρόσφατος (latest), χθεσινόσ (yesterday's). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | freskët (fresh). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שארע לאחרונה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nem régi, modern (jazz, latter day, modern, modernism, new, present day, sophisticated, trendy, up to date, up-to-date), minapi, friss (beany, cool, crispy, fresh, green, hot, just cooked, lush, new, red-hot, spruce), újabb keletű. (various references) | |
Indonesian | buncit (distended, pregnant), baru saja, aktual (current, topical). (various references) | |
Irish | úr (fresh, novel). (various references) | |
Italian | fresco (blooming, breezy, chilly, cool, coolness, crisp, fresh, green, new, shady, virgin, wet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 今次 (new, the present time). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こんじ (completecure, dark blue cloth, dark blue ground, new, regrettable matter, the present time). (various references) | |
Korean | 최근. (various references) | |
Manx | noa (fresh, modern, new, novel, original), jeianagh (last, late). (various references) | |
Norwegian | frisk (fresh, good, healthy, well). (various references) | |
Papiamen | fresku (fresh). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecentray.(various references) | |
Polish | świeży (fresh). (various references) | |
Portuguese | recente (fresh, late, latter-day, modern, new, new-found, present-day). (various references) | |
Romanian | recent (fresh, freshly, green, hot, late, lately, latter, latter day, latterly, low, new, newly, recently, up to date), ultim (back, bottom, bottommost, closing, eventual, extreme, final, finishing, hindmost, last, late, lowest, rear, rearmost, rearward, supreme, ultimate, utmost), proaspåt (fresh), proaspãt (bracing, cold, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, green, new, sweet, warm), cald (affectionate, heat, hot, tepid, warm, warmly, warmth). (various references) | |
Russian | современный (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, latter day, latter-day, modern, modern-day, neoteric, new, nowaday, nowaday's, present day, present-day, up to date), новый (another, brand new, brand-new, emergent, first-time, fresh, in mint condition, latter day, modern, new, novel, novel (a), young), недавний (late, latter, lower, neoteric), последний (aftermost, dernier, final, grace-cup, hindmost, last, late-breaking, latter, lattermost, rearmost, ultima, ultimate). (various references) | |
Scottish | nuadh (fresh, new), ùr (beautiful, flourishing, fresh, new, vigorous, young). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | taze (fresh, new), svež (bracing, breezy, chilly, coldish, cool, crisp, dewy, fresh, new, young), skorašnji (forthcoming, imminent), iz sadašnjeg doba. (various references) | |
Spanish | reciente (fresh, lower, new, young), fresco (brisk, cheeky, cool, crisp, familiar, forward, fresco, fresh, fresh air, green, impudent person, new, sassy, saucebox, saucy, sweet, warm, wet). (various references) | |
Sranan | fersi (fresh). (various references) | |
Swedish | senast (at the latest, by, last, latest), nya (new), ny (crisp, fresh, new, novel), färsk (fresh, good, green, new, new-laid, sweet, wet, young). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sariwà (fresh). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeni (fresh, freshly, green, hot, incoming, ingoing, kaino-, maiden, neo-, neoteric, new, newly, novel, novice, only just, recently, renewed, smart, young), son günlerdeki (of recent date), son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сучасний (actual, coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, existent, latter day, modern, neoteric, new, new-day, nowaday, present day, up to date, up-dated, with it), недавній (late, latter, new, young). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xảy ra gần đây, tân thời (new), mới xảy ra mới, mới đây (latterly, recently), gần đây (hereabout, hereabouts, recently). (various references) | |
Welsh | diweddar (belated, late, modern). (various references) | |
Yucatec | aak' (fresh). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nova, novellus, repens. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | novel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recent": recenter, recentest, recently, recentness, recentnesses, recentralization, recentralizations, recentrifuge, recentrifuged, recentrifuges, recentrifuging. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "recent": precent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "recent": precented, precenting, precentor, precentorial, precentors, precentorship, precentorships, precents, trecento, trecentos. (additional references) | |
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"Recent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arcent, Arcnet, arecent, eccen, racant, racenate, raent, Rakant, rcant, recand, recane, recang, rece, receent, recenate, recend, recens, recentre, recentt, recept, recind, recint, reclent, recune, reent, rekant, reknit, rement, rescent, reshen, ressent, revent, rezen, rezent, Rieken, rucent, Rushent, Rycant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recent" (pronounced rē"sunt) |
| 5 | -ē" s u n t | decent, indecent. |
| 4 | -s u n t | antidepressant, absent, adjacent, adolescent, complacent, complaisant, convalescent, conversant, Crescent, incandescent, depressant, dispersant, docent, effervescent, evanescent, fluorescent, incessant, innocent, iridescent, lucent, luminescent, magnificent, nascent, obsolescent, preadolescent, quiescent, reminiscent, reticent, suppressant, translucent, tumescent. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complainant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convenient, convent, convergent, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, luxuriant, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: center, centre, tenrec. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: enter, erect, rente, terce, terne, treen. | |
-2 letters: cent, cere, cete, erne, rent, rete, teen, tern, tree. | |
-3 letters: cee, ere, ern, nee, net, rec, ree, ret, tee, ten. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: centare, centers, centner, centred, centres, credent, crenate, enteric, enticer, lectern, percent, precent, reenact, tenrecs. | |
+2 letters: cabernet, cantered, carotene, ceinture, cementer, centares, centered, centiare, centners, cerement, coherent, concrete, creatine, crenated, crescent, cretonne, decanter, decenter, decentre, electron, enticers, entrance, entrench, enuretic, erecting, erection, frenetic, gentrice, incenter, increate, infecter, iterance, lecterns, neoteric, percents, precents, preenact, prentice, pretence, reaccent, reascent, recanted, recanter, recenter, recently, recreant, reenacts, reincite, reinfect, reinject, relucent, reticent, retrench, sarcenet, secretin, terpenic, trecento, trenched, trencher, trenches, uncreate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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