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Through the inevitable challenges of constant change, the bonds an entrepreneur cultivates in the present can prompt their greatest accomplishments in the near future.
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The schism that Hazony sounded his alarm about is very far from the present for the Republican Party.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
It is often characterized as a unproductive fixation on an idealized past, one that prevents people from living in the present and planning for the future.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
But not all peace is equal, and this strange, eventful history offers many reasons to suspect that the present peace with Iran will be a brief parenthesis in the long story of mutual enmity.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The schism that Hazony sounded his alarm about is very far from the present for the Republican Party.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
It is often characterized as a unproductive fixation on an idealized past, one that prevents people from living in the present and planning for the future.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
But not all peace is equal, and this strange, eventful history offers many reasons to suspect that the present peace with Iran will be a brief parenthesis in the long story of mutual enmity.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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 9 Sep. 2025.
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