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The earliest versions of Visa cards share its blue, white and gold striped pattern but little of the present-day technology.
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Brandon Holveck, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
This public artwork and its function — as in, this party and the space’s purpose — feels like a mirror, a temple to self, a shrine to funk, a dedication and invitation to experience what is still so divine and aspirational about the present moment.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
That time turned out to be the present.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
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Brandon Holveck, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
This public artwork and its function — as in, this party and the space’s purpose — feels like a mirror, a temple to self, a shrine to funk, a dedication and invitation to experience what is still so divine and aspirational about the present moment.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
That time turned out to be the present.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the present
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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